Estranged Reality Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/who-report-antibiotic-resistance-happening-right-now-all-over-the-world-9306122.htmlScary thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I love how even you foreigners know how shit the Daily Mail is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 I love how even you foreigners know how shit the Daily Mail is. I grew up in England and my dad was conservative and always bought the paper. I hated it even as a kid with its headlines.I actually dislike it so much that I went and found another website for a source. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Eh? Fuck you ER!! Fuck you right in the ear!!!! I actually dislike it so much that I went and found another website for a source. See above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin White Duke Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 We are all gonna die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The pharmaceutical industry has not prioritized developing new antibiotics for the last decades (causing companies with a business model focussed on antibiotics to lack funding) simply because other therapeutic areas have been perceived as more important. When multiresistant bugs become more prevalent it would be a pretty straightforward thing for the industry to shift focus and gear and start churning out new antibiotics, I believe. I am not trivializing the danger of multiresistant bacteria, people are dying from them everyday and it is definitely a growing concern (hence the WHO report), just that I don't see us losing the battle all yet.What does worry me, though, is bio-terror from engineered viruses and synthetic biology. It is MUCH harder to fight viruses with antibiotics and MUCH easier to engineer viruses through synthetic biology to become more virulent. Fun fact: I talked about this at the trial lecture at my PhD dissertation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin White Duke Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Bacteria will never destroy our egos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I choose not to care generally. If we panicked about every little thing like this we'd never leave the house and have random, indiscriminate unprotected sex with Nigerian immigrants. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastodonny Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Thank you, meat and dairy industry for your great contribution to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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