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On February 27, World Health Organization published its first ever list of the top 12 "priority pathogens."
The list was drawn up in a bid to guide and promote research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics, as part of WHO's efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines.
The list highlights in particular the threat of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. These bacteria have built-in abilities to find new ways to resist treatment and can pass along genetic material that allows other bacteria to become drug-resistant as well.
[...] "Antibiotic resistance is growing, and we are fast running out of treatment options. If we leave it to market forces alone, the new antibiotics we most urgently need are not going to be developed in time."
[...] The most critical group of all includes multidrug resistant bacteria that pose a particular threat in hospitals, nursing homes, and among patients whose care requires devices such as ventilators and blood catheters. They include Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and various Enterobacteriaceae (including Klebsiella, E. coli, Serratia, and Proteus). They can cause severe and often deadly infections such as bloodstream infections and pneumonia.
These bacteria have become resistant to a large number of antibiotics, including carbapenems and third generation cephalosporins – the best available antibiotics for treating multi-drug resistant bacteria.
More analysis at NPR: WHO's First-Ever List Of The Dirty Dozen Superbugs
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Gaaark on Friday March 03 2017, @02:27PM (1 child)
We need one that affects only rich people who screw others over... Let THEM all die off.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:46PM
it would be fantastic if ONLY rich people screw you over.
if this were a set-in-stone-truth then we could base a whole story/explanation of how the universe came into being and it would WORK:
like the first axiom!
f3ck this whole "big bang theory" is getting old...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:00PM (1 child)
... perhaps we could trap them? We humans mastered micro-structures fabrication, perhaps we can construct little mechanical traps with bait inside and let the little bugs swim into them never to appear out again? Or maybe harpoon them and inject some nasty enzymes when they come near it and the trap senses their specific chemical fingerprint coinciding with, say ... flagellum movement?
(Score: 2) by Joe on Friday March 03 2017, @07:08PM
perhaps we could trap them?
Not exactly practical, but the Shear lab has made bacterial "lobster traps" to catch bacteria.
harpoon them and inject some nasty enzymes
IIRC the type VI secretion system is used by some bacteria to do exactly this.
- Joe
Bacterial "Lobster Trap" paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21060734 [nih.gov]
Shear lab webpage: http://jshear.cm.utexas.edu/jshear/site2/researchDMD.html [utexas.edu]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_VI_secretion_system [wikipedia.org]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:04PM (10 children)
This is more politically correct meddling from globalist liberals begging for free money so they can play God. What happened to tried and true remedies like fresh air and sunshine? Crybaby millennials can't even get through a cold without shitting their pants on facebook and running to a safe space.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:16PM
mod parent fake
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:35PM (8 children)
I lean towards the traditional remedy of having an old woman spit rum in my face while waving a live chicken over my body. Warning: Make sure the person doing this is not a quack!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:44PM (6 children)
What happened to God? Heathen new age crap is why there are these "superbugs." People forgot about God, fresh air, and sunshine. No wonder He's sending plagues to you. Trump will bring God back to America.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday March 03 2017, @04:29PM (4 children)
The belief that disease is some sort of divine punishment is thousands of years old. Congrats on letting two millennia just breeze right by you.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @05:00PM (3 children)
You doctors think you're high and mighty staving off the Lord's judgement for homosexuals (AIDS) and gluttons (diabetes) with your satanic "medicine." We're tired of your politically correct "theories" like microbes and "climate change." You think you can use the sinful fruits stolen from the Tree of Knowledge to steal from the Tree of Life. Maybe you should read about what happened to Nebuchadnezzar.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @05:06PM
Lol quite the troll we have today.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @06:59PM (1 child)
In Kansas, people don't believe in evolution. Therefore they don't have a problem with the evolution of dangerous bacteria. Problem solved. No drugs needed.
> Maybe you should read about what happened to Nebuchadnezzar.
Nah, I would rather read about what happened to Eglon. Judges 3:15-26 [biblegateway.com] Ehud said to Eglon: "I have a message from God for you." But I won't give spoilers.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @07:29PM
> ... But I won't give spoilers.
You missed a great chance to use this new SN feature!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @06:35PM
> Trump will bring God back to America.
You mean, Trump will make God great again?
I'm sure God will be thrilled to have Trump's help.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 03 2017, @06:11PM
According to my reference books, it works because she's wearing black robes and a pointy hat. That's Headology for you.
And no quack would dare wear a witch hat, for fear of Granny Weatherwax.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @03:35PM (7 children)
if people could afford to become sick (and thus have no working income) they would NOT dread being sick for a few days instead of
ab(using) anti-biotics for every each and little "sign" of maledy?
the way i see it, there must be some place were people are constantly being infected and reinfected and are constantly sick and on the verge
of losing the battle and dying.
i imagine people on the verge of turning from human into zombie and avoiding it by swallowing anti-biotics by the shovel load per day.
how else should the creation and evolution of anti-biotic resistant bacteria be imagined?
some people don't finish "their course" because they feel better but drug companies (?) want us to believe that you should NOT stop taking the pills even though you're feeling better? like, duh, i am feeling better so the bug is gone? or like, i am growing a super drug-resistant bug FOR WHICH I AM IMMUNE but will kill everybody else .. because .. duh? what?
(Score: 5, Informative) by mhajicek on Friday March 03 2017, @05:39PM
Blame the factory farms that keep their animals on a constant low-dose drip. It's as if they were trying to breed immunity.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by nobu_the_bard on Friday March 03 2017, @05:41PM (1 child)
Another contributing factor is prescribing unnecessary medicine. People come in with a vague sense of unease, and they want SOMETHING, and doctor isn't allowed (or won't take the risk he might be wrong) to prescribe a sugar pill, so he prescribes penicillin or something. This means the medicine is getting exposed to bacteria/etc for no benefit, but with all of the costs intact.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @06:44PM
Okay, here's an idea. If people come in with a vague sense of unease and they want SOMETHING, then the doctor should prescribe one of the erectile dysfunction boner drugs and send them on their way. It is something. Not a sugar pill. But it's not unnecessary antibiotics either. If that doesn't work, then the doctor might try this extraordinary idea of coming up with a diagnosis, after several more office visits, but prior to prescribing a drug. Diagnosis -- a novel new idea.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Friday March 03 2017, @07:37PM (3 children)
Other way around, at least in the US. The problem here is rich fuckers who will spend weeks doctor shopping until they find someone who will prescribe high strength antibiotics over the phone because the rich fuck has the sniffles and they demand antibiotics "just to be safe" -- while being "too busy" to actually go see a competent doctor who would probably tell them to shut up and drink some tea. But say something like that to the rich little snowflake and they'll spend virtually unlimited amounts of time and money to get you fired because HOW DARE a medical professional claim to know medicine better than some dumbass MBA. I've seen this shit happen.
Last time I had an infection I had exactly two options -- pay $300 out of my own pocket to get a prescription that week from a clinic, or wait SIX MONTHS for an appointment that might be partially covered by my insurance. And that's with somewhat decent insurance (Cigna), it's not like I'm on friggin' medicaid. The people who can't afford to get sick can't probably afford to get a prescription either. Antibiotics may be cheap, but the prescription for them isn't.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 03 2017, @08:02PM (2 children)
If it took six months to get an appointment, then either your health insurance is crap or your doctor is. And I'd give odds it's the doctor. (Of course, thats not an exclusive or...but 6 months!!.)
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)
> then either your health insurance is crap or your doctor is
Either of those may be a symptom that the country's healthcare system is sick.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @10:24PM
Bbbbbut Obamacare!!!!
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Dunbal on Friday March 03 2017, @04:26PM (6 children)
Because that is what the pharmaceutical industry was missing. A list of bacteria. Problem is virtually solved now. Well done UN. By the way, how many man-hours and how much money did it take to come up with that "list"?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Friday March 03 2017, @05:25PM (4 children)
We need a cynical mod. But instead of spending mod points on it, everyone here just gets it automatically.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Dunbal on Friday March 03 2017, @05:44PM
+1 cynical
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 03 2017, @06:16PM (1 child)
Great! I work hard for my cynical views, and now you're just gonna go around crediting everyone equally!
This is unAmerican neo-commie behavior and it will not stand unless I get a bigger piece of the pie!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @06:47PM
I don't have to work hard for my naturally cynical outlook. And I'm not complaining that others can get a +1 Cynical mod.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 03 2017, @06:42PM
We need a cynical mod. But instead of spending mod points on it, everyone here just gets it automatically.
Stupid idea, it would never work!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 03 2017, @07:55PM
It is a prioritized list. That is what makes it useful. Also, because it is a consolidated list.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 03 2017, @07:03PM (1 child)
Is it just me? I think the title of this Soylent article is missing a question mark at the end.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Friday March 03 2017, @10:27PM
I think it needs a "Doctor" at the beginning.