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| | Antibiotic abuse in pigs 'could create superbugs'--Ummah.comGeneral |
 | | More disconcertingly, research conducted in 2001 suggests that one in 10 British children under the age of 10 may carry multi-resistant superbugs in their digestive systems, limiting the drug options available to them. | | | And so, when you are admitted to hospital for minor heart surgery a decade after you ate that tainted cheddar sandwich, the superbugs are waiting to colonise your chest and kill you. | | | Known as VRE (Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci), these bugs are among the most indestructible isolated from humans and are virtually untreatable in their most resistant form. |
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| | Physician’s Weekly: online CME courses, articles on hypertension, arthritis |
| | Vancomycin Resistant Enterococc, or VRE, is a superbug bacterium in the gastrointestinal and genital tracts. | | | Physicians' reliance on broad-spectrum antibiotics when there is little clinical rationale for their use contributes to the growth of superbugs. | | | In the long term, the fear is that superbugs will become impervious to more and more drugs. |
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| | Hospital Superbugs Prove Deadly; Over-Prescription of Antibiotics Contributes to the Problem |
| | Clearly the responsible use of antibiotics is something that needs to be taught to the practitioners of organized medicine. | | | When they are struck with a superbug, their odds of surviving the infection drop even further. | | | But what causes these superbugs to be so infectious and so deadly when patients are exposed to them in the first place? |
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| | USNews.com: Hospital Superbugs (2/17/97) |
| | One study found, for example, that 75 percent of patients with hospital-acquired VRE died. | | | The hospital changed its procedure, and the VRE spread was halted. | | | This germ, which resists a host of antibiotics, is especially dangerous to patients with cancer and cystic fibrosis. |
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| | Those thriving superbugs are at it again - Drug Topics |
| | Pharmacists can play a major role through clinician and patient education and focused clinical services. | | | Those thriving superbugs are at it again - Drug Topics | | | Please send any technical comments or questions to our webmaster. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Background Briefings Antibiotics Antibiotics |
| | Antibiotics have revolutionised medical care in the 20th century, but in recent years bugs have been winning the battle against the medical profession. | | | Meet the most successful organism on earth, and find out why it poses a threat to humans. | | | Antibiotics have been used in farming since their introduction, but fears about the increasing risk of superbugs have led to their use being curbed. |
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| | Davies' Superbugs |
| | In the late 1970s, a research submarine called Alvin was sent to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to explore a string of volcanic vents known as 'black smokers'. | | | They are primary producers, turning inorganic material from the hot vents directly into biomass, without the need for sunlight. | | | This change of mind stems from the startling discovery of bizarre micro-organisms, dubbed superbugs or extremophiles, that inhabit some of our planet's most extreme environments. |
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| | Aromatherapy oils may kill superbugs - Breaking News - http://www.smh.com.au |
| | She said: "Our research shows a very practical application which could be of enormous benefit to the NHS and its patients. | | | Peter Warn, from the University's faculty of medicine, who worked on the research, said the findings could help save lives. | | | Researchers believe the oils - chemical compounds found in aromatic plants - could be blended into soaps and shampoos to eradicate the spread of superbugs. |
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| | Superbugs not super after all |
| | Let’s look at what is known about how the ‘superbugs’ became resistant, and ask—did any new structures or functions arise in the process (which is another way of asking whether there was any evidence of evolution)? | | | After over 12 years as a medical practitioner, I suddenly found myself an avid consumer, rather than a provider, of medical care. | | | The term ‘golden staph’ has become a lay expression for these superbugs, but it is actually a correct lay term for the most common type of staph, otherwise known as S. aureus or S. pyogenes, which applies even if the bug is not multiply resistant. |
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| | AskMen.com - Drug resistant bacterium |
| | In addition, it is important to keep in mind that shorter therapies are not necessarily better treatment options. | | | Health & Life Advice > Drug resistant bacterium | | | Certain drugs have been shown to create more superbugs than others. |
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| | Oregon DHS: News release Sept. 22, 2003 |
| | Like most parents in this situation, we were grateful for the great skill and care of the doctors and nurses who helped our daughter. | | | •Take prescribed antibiotics for the full course of treatment; inadequate treatment also contributes to the development of superbugs. | | | A 2001 study of illnesses in the Portland area found that 20 percent of infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the leading cause of meningitis, pneumonia and ear infections, were resistant to penicillin. |
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| | Rise of Deadly Superbugs should 'Raise Red Flags' Everywhere |
| | One of the most vexing superbugs is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. | | | When antibiotics are used for non-bacterial illnesses, or when prescriptions are not taken for the full cycle, the bugs that endure pass on their drug-resistant traits to subsequent generations. | | | The number of cases of "superbugs," as researchers call them, has been increasingly steadily in recent years, the reports conclude. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - Hospital superbugs |
| | Ninewells closes a ward to halt the spread of MRSA superbug | | | A QUARTER of serious cases of MRSA in hospitals are found in patients who have just been admitted... | | | A SENIOR doctor told an inquest yesterday that the risk of infection from the superbug MRSA meant... |
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| | BBC News Sci/Tech 'Superbugs' possible from genetically modified food |
| | Fears that genetically-modified foods might promote drug-resistant "superbugs" have been fuelled by new research. | | | Dutch scientists used a computer-controlled artificial gut to show that DNA remains intact for several minutes in the large intestine. | | | Some maize fed to cattle contains antibiotic resistance genes |
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| | CBC News: Study finds day-care kids swapping superbugs |
| | Canadian researcher Dr. Donald Low says countries such as Iceland are so concerned about the problem they actually bans children with superbugs from going to day care. | | | Researchers believe children who take antibiotics develop resistant bacteria on their hands and in their noses, and then pass the bacteria on to their classmates. | | | TORONTO - A study presented in Toronto has found that children in day-care centres may be sharing bacteria resistant to antibiotics, known as superbugs. |
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| | Superbugs That Resist All Current Drugs Are Coming | | | New Scientist Planet Science: Evolution and Healing — book review | | | HeraldNet - Rise of 'superbugs' prompts new warning |
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| | CBS News Silent Killers: Scary Superbugs April 8, 2003 23:16:58 |
| | The doctor told her it was the last option. | | | “By giving Holllie as many antibiotics as we did by the time she was a year old we created a superbug,” says her mother. | | | Like all living things, bacteria adapt to the environment. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - Superbugs |
| | Normally harmless bacteria that get along rather well with healthy people attack and thrive in the bodies of the very sick or the very young or old, whose immune systems are already overtaxed, common antibiotics no longer effective in combating these microorganisms. | | | Fortunately for us, our resources have not yet been exhausted in our race against microbes. | | | So what happens now in our war against infectious disease and superbugs? |
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| | Honey heals savage 'superbugs' » ABC Southern Queensland |
| | For generations our mothers have been soothing our sore throats with a teaspoon of honey and lemon. | | | And while the honey we put on our toast probably won’t cure too many ills, it’s a nice thought that a few of the sweeter things in life can be used to produce such positive results. | | | “All throughout the UK there’s concern about the emergence of these superbugs and when I was over there, a report said that up to 100 people are dying each week of these superbugs,” Anthony says. |
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| | Viruses and The Coconut Diet™ |
| | The antibiotics rarely provide benefit, and these conditions can be effectively treated with natural measures. | | | According to many experts, such as the World Health Organization, we are coming dangerously close to arriving at a "postnatibitoic era," in which many infectious diseases will once again become almost impossible to treat. | | | The widespread use and abuse of antibiotics is becoming increasingly alarming, not only because of the chronic candidiasis epidemic, but also due to the development of "superbugs" that are resistant to currently available antibiotics. |
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| | New drug will help fight against superbugs |
| | Would you like to register for our weekly NO-NONSENSE Medical News Letter? | | | However, scientists fear that in time, superbugs will also become resistant to vancomycin, leaving them nothing in their medical armoury to combat superbug infections. | | | Chemists have come up with a synthetic version of a class of drug called cephalosporin and they have found the drug killed a rare but highly dangerous variant of MRSA that is resistant not only to common antibiotics but also to vancomycin, which is considered the last line of defence against MRSA infections. |
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| | British Red Cross - Superbugs |
| | Superbugs are infections that have developed resistance to certain medicines. | | | Some hospitals and health clinics in the UK are reporting problems with a superbug called MRSA. | | | Because by not finishing a course of antibiotics, such as penicillin, you could be leading the way open for superbugs to develop. |
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| | Prevent Disease.com - Bacteria Genome New Weapon Against Superbugs |
| | Superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureaus are a growing problem worldwide. | | | For more information on how to prevent other diseases, use | | | Get the latest news in prevention and health matters. |
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| | Why You Should Thank America For Superbugs |
| | To begin with, the new superbugs only caused problems within hospitals - where they caused many deaths among patients whose immune systems had been compromised by other diseases or by physical or mental stresses. | | | The problem was so great that the extra costs incurred when doctors had to prescribe increasingly expensive antibiotics was beginning to add an enormous burden to all those responsible for providing health care facilities. | | | The problem first became clear when it was noticed that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin had risen from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988. |
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| | Collaborative Software Testing: Superbugs |
| | Development environments that utilize test-driven development, automated unit testing tools and other test-infected development techniques, in my experience, tend to generate very robust applications. | | | In software development projects, I have encountered bugs that at least on the surface appear to exhibit this "superbug" behavior. | | | In spite of all the precautions, new technology and the enormous efforts of health care professionals, bugs still manage to mutate and respond to the environment they are in and still pose a threat to human health. |
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| | Antibiotic Resistent Superbugs |
| | Superbugs especially threaten patients who are chronic users of antibiotics. | | | Ever since the 1980's, when I was still in the Family, reports began coming out about superbugs. | | | Since before having to move into longterm, she has needed continuous antibiotics treatments, with breaks as long as possible. |
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| | Superbugs Unleashed |
| | The cost of using Superbugs can still be quite high if – as many other applicators have done – the soil is excavated, placed in a large pugmill (mixer) and then replaced at its original site. | | | SCM conducted the original Phase I and Phase II surveys and samplings and determined that there were areas at both sites where levels of petroleum hydrocarbons, cadmium and lead were excessive. | | | The alternative to "Superbugs" is to haul all of the contaminated soil to a controlled landfill -- a process that is much more expensive. |
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| | Superbugs Threaten Our Health |
| | A few manage to withstand treatment and multiply, and when this process is repeated enough times with new drugs, bacteria eventually turn into drug-resistant superbugs. | | | Editor -- Re: Superbugs and agriculture ("Superbugs Threaten Our Health," Dec. 29). | | | Another major factor in the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms is the subclinical treatment of animals. |
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| | Superbugs Resist 'Last Resort' Antibiotics |
| | Enright believes vancomycin resistance will become more common as the drug is used to treat the increasing numbers of people who contract MRSA. | | | The team found that there were nine strains of VISA bugs and that had evolved from five different types of MRSA. | | | Hospital superbugs with resistance to a "last resort" antibiotic have emerged independently in at least eight different countries, reveals a new study. |
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| | The Australian: Deadly superbugs strike at third hospital [ 03jun05 ] |
| | AMA vice president Andrew Keegan last night said very sick patients exposed to large doses of antibiotics were vulnerable to superbugs, which became resistant to the medication. | | | Around 30 per cent of people who develop bloodstream infection with MRSA die either through infection or their disease. | | | We do regular screening in high-risk areas and our recent screenings have not revealed this organism in some time," the spokeswoman said. |
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| | Doctors warn of "superbugs" that resist usual antibiotics |
| | No more, say infectious disease experts, who increasingly are seeing these "superbugs": strains of Staphylococcus aureus unfazed by the entire penicillin family and other first-line drugs. | | | Not affiliated with state of Pennsylvania or any health care provider in Pennsylvania. | | | HOME > General Health Discussion Forums > Immunology > Doctors warn of "superbugs" that resist usual antibiotics |
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| | World Health Crisis-Superbugs Emerging |
| | The usual and common form of tuberculosis has now mutated into several new strains that are resistant to present antibiotics that were designed to treat it. | | | Over the last twenty years, the antibiotics that were used to treat these superbugs, have also mutated into terrible horrific strains that present antibiotics have little effect on. | | | Women who are not vaccinated against chickenpox, and who get it while pregnant, have a high risk of having a baby born with defects. |
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| | Factory farming -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Critics claim that factory farming is inhumane, poses (A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease) health risks, and causes (The area in which something exists or lives) environmental damage. | | | Animals raised on antibiotics are breeding (Click link for more info and facts about antibiotic resistant) antibiotic resistant strains of various ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants) bacteria ("superbugs"). | | | Concentrated animal waste is (Click link for more info and facts about polluting) polluting the (Click link for more info and facts about groundwater) groundwater, and creating dust, fly, and odor problems for their neighbors. |
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Hot balloon kills superbugs in mattresses |
| | A simple heat treatment could rid hospital mattresses of antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as MRSA, says a UK company. | | | And it has not been shown that the transmission of superbugs through infected mattresses in hospitals is a significant problem, say microbiologists. | | | MRSA (methycillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is just one of several potentially deadly superbugs that kill thousands of patients in UK hospitals every year. |
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| | Trapping the Superbugs - Health For Life - MSNBC.com |
| | At Georgia-based Inhibitex, for example, researchers are using human antibodies to battle the superbugs. | | | Trapping the Superbugs - Health For Life - MSNBC.com | | | Other companies are turning away from chemical compounds altogether, hoping they can ramp up the body's own response to infection. |
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| | HORIKOSHI Superbugs |
| | Interesting specimens found during this search were studied regarding their DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides as well as tolerance mechanisms, metabolic pathways, and gene expressions. | | | The Horikoshi superbugs project conducted a world-wide search for bacteria that thrive under extreme conditions of pH, salinity, and temperature. |
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| | Miracle Drugs vs. Superbugs (Antibiotics) |
| | Despite the frightening trend, most people aren't likely to encounter a "superbug" that can outsmart all antibiotics, says Mark Goldberger, M.D., director of the Food and Drug Administration's division of special pathogen and immunologic drug products. |
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| | Superbugs Rumbled |
| | These were nothing less than the superbugs themselves training for another onslaught on the feeble masses. | | | As she got closer to the ground and squinted really hard she could see insty-binsty little bugs wearing gym clothes and 'working out' in a very very very small health club. | | | This morning the government will announce the opening of a new front in the battle against MRSA and the other superbugs that threaten to take over the planet. |
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| | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE SUPERBUGS DRUG-RESISTANT GERMS RIFE THERAPY |
| | Bird Flu Virus is in the news now, (at least this week; there are plenty of other superbugs on the horizon) and it seems to be the major concern for most people, so we can use it as a paradigm. | | | This is purely speculation for further scientific research. | | | For a more scientific explanation, see the Appendices on the Resources page and articles on the Services page. |
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| | Superbugs |
| | Because of the rampant misuse of antibiotics and antiviral medications, bacteria and viruses are evolving into superbugs. | | | The next time someone tries to tell you there's no such thing as evolution, tell them about drug-resistant staph. | | | You want to know what's going to kill us all? |
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| | JS Online: The fight against 'superbugs' |
| | These superbugs can hang around harmlessly in people's noses and on their hands, ready to spread to others who may develop serious infections from them, like the little girl in northern Wisconsin. | | | They swap these genes with other bacteria they meet, transforming them into "superbugs" that resist drugs. | | | Those that survive often have genes that help them evade the antibiotic. |
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| | “Superbugs” still affecting hospitals - Healthypages news |
| | Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, known as “superbugs”, affected more than 3,000 people in England during the first six months of this year, according to report issued by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS). | | | Some media reports have concluded that there has been a huge increase in MRSA, but the PHLS says this is because of a change in the way the figures are reported. | | | In total, 8,572 cases of infection with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus were reported to the PHLS in the first six months of 2002, 41 per cent of which were cases of the “superbug” methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureas (MRSA). |
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| | Armageddon Online - Killer Superbugs |
| | Health chiefs have been slammed for allowing patients to be treated in filthy hospitals where the number of patients contracting infections is soaring.The numbers of blood infections from Staphylococcus aureus has gone up almost 8% from 17,933 in 2001-02 to 19,311 in 2003-04 - of these 40% were a strain of the deadly MRSA. | | | Killer superbugs are now out of control with 5,000 people a year dying from viruses picked up in hospitals says a damning report. | | | The so-called superbug, a peculiarity of the Iraq war, can cause infections, fever and pneumonia. |
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| | Q Fever! - CDC Report Highlights "Superbugs" - Q Fever! Medical Humor |
| | These 'Superbugs' threaten to erode the gains made against communicable diseases in the 20th century." said Koplan in the 34-page statement. | | | ATLANTA, GA--CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey Koplan stated today that, despite the unfortunate recent increase in the incidence of antibiotic-resistant "Superbugs," the combined efforts by these specially empowered bacteria in fighting such evil fiends as Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, and the Joker, among others, "are substantial and worthy of praise." | | | This was an apparent allusion to the February, 2000 incident during which the Superbugs, operating out of a diminutive "Hall of Justice" located on a blood agar plate, attacked Luthor and gave him a bad case of cellulitis just as he was about to pull the trigger. |
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| | where there's no more bombs or superbugs for us. | | | I might unleash this vial of superbugs itching to get out. | | | But you didn’t think that while you blink |
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| | Liberal Democrats : ZERO TOLERANCE NEEDED ON SUPERBUGS - BURSTOW |
| | Hosted (printed) by NetBenefit, 11 Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R ODP, www.netbenefit.com who are not responsible for any of the contents of the site. | | | The Government must adopt a search and destroy approach to tackling superbugs, the Liberal Democrats said today as a major conference on tackling hospital-acquired infections like MRSA is taking place in London. | | | The conference coincides with the announcement that a British researcher, from the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, has developed a new test that should help doctors identify superbugs more quickly. |
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| | 'Superbugs' under control? |
| | A report from the US Institute of Food Technologists this month claims that there is no evidence that proper use of antimicrobial agents in food manufacturing settings will lead to the development of resistant micro-organisms. | | | 25/11/2002 - Will the increasing use of antimicrobial agents in the food industry as a means of controlling food bacteria mutations lead to ‘superbugs'? |
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