{"id":90127,"date":"2019-08-24T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90127"},"modified":"2019-08-24T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:55:26","slug":"the-problem-with-growing-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90127","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Growing Antibiotic Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a disturbance going on in modern medicine. Antibiotics that were so wonderfully powerful at the beginning of the 20th century against bad bugs like measles and diphtheria are rapidly becoming ineffective. It’s called antibiotic resistance. Bacteria and viruses multiply rapidly and can easily and quickly shift their own DNA to resist modern drugs.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/2019\/08\/23\/heres-why-growing-antibiotic-resistance-is-serious-and-frightening-for-the-military\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0\u00a0Antibiotics are life-saving medicines designed to kill germs, but over the years many germs have developed the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. The growth of this resistance is also accelerated by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics — in many cases, incorrectly prescribed<\/u>.<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Infections caused by these antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n

Service members who deploy to areas of the world where there\u2019s widespread antibiotic-resistant bacteria are at risk for bacterial infections. And those who are already ill, wounded or injured may be more susceptible to these infections. In addition, troops may carry these infections home with them. \u2013 article<\/p>\n

With all the other issues we have, it\u2019s bad enough that bugs can alter their DNA at will to survive chemical poisoning. The more and more aggressive we are in trying to decimate these populations, the faster they mutate. Nature always wins, and we are fighting a losing battle.<\/p>\n

Whether or not this method works better than chemicals, if it works now \u2013 removal instead of extermination \u2013 will it still be effective in the future?\u00a0 Things have gotten so bad in modern medicine that a while ago, there was a report on how researchers are looking at medieval medical texts to try to find something that will work.<\/p>\n

You know that old saying that ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’? There’s more to that than just great-grandma’s quips and homemade advice.<\/p>\n

When I watched a video on finding and opening Richard III’s tomb, in a parking lot that had once been the Gray Friars Abbey, the first thing I noticed was that the archaeologist doing the digging was wearing hazmat gear, including a mask, from head to toe. A woman’s casket was also excavated, because it was placed alongside the King’s. Those old tombs and graves are being opened more and more frequently now, and there are bugs buried in them that are just as lethal now as they were when the Plagues swept through Europe (bubonic plague and smallpox), Athens (possibly ebola) and Rome (Antonine Plague – smallpox or possibly measles). Even Elizabeth I was not protected from the Pox. She contracted it, and thanks to a healthy immune system, survived it.<\/p>\n

I have two smallpox vax scars, one from toddlerhood and one from boot camp. Neither of them is effective now.\u00a0 We kids got vaccinated in grade school when the Salk vaccine became available. Then again in junior high and (me) again in boot camp.\u00a0 And in grade school, we were all tested for TB, which seems to be reviving itself now.<\/p>\n

Remember the anthrax scare? That got its start when heavy rains in the Plains States softened the spores that held the anthrax bugs enough to “wake them up” and revive the disease, when no one had seen it in nearly a century and ranchers thought they didn’t have to vaccinate their cattle for it any more. Anthrax can lie dormant for as long as it needs to. It’s a great survival mechanism.<\/p>\n

Nature is a harsh mistress. \u00a0She always wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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