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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I feel that we shouldn't be focusing on a call to develop new antibiotics, that's completely misidentifying the problem. We didn't stop developing new antibiotics because we became complacent, it's because we hit diminishing returns and discovered that effective and safe antibiotic compounds are relatively rare in nature and incredibly hard to develop. The focus should be on a ground floor reforming of industrial agriculture, more focus on preventing contamination in hospitals, and a focus on only prescribing antibiotics to people when absolutely necessary. Barring another miracle discovery on the order of penicillin within a century of the last one, we're not going to be able to do much beyond limiting the creation and spread of resistant strains. Hope you're prepared to invade China and India because virtually all superbugs come from that region and they don't seem interested in sustainable agricultural reform. They were giving colistin to pigs.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:why the gently caress are we giving superantibiotics to pigs. It's mostly happening in underderveloped countries with weak institutions. China is the "colistin to pigs" case, and to be honest I have heard a ton of stories of Chinese doctors who clearly don't understand antibiotics just giving them out like candy to anyone who sees them (like literally just giving out bags of mixed antibiotics and probably not even checking which are in there), and frequently antibiotics aren't taken properly, are shared among families, etc. Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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