NDM-1 will kill us all!

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15-09-10, 03:55 AM
vashti

NDM-1 will kill us all!

NDM-1, which stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 is a gene (DNA code) carried by some bacteria. If a bacteria strain carries the NDM-1 gene it is resistant to nearly all antibiotics, including carbapenem antibiotics - also known as antibiotics of last resort.

Carbepenems are the most powerful antibiotics, used as a last resort for many bacterial infections, such as E. coli and Klebsiella. The NDM-1 gene makes the bacterium produce an enzyme which neutralizes the activity of carbepenem antibiotics.

A bacterium carrying the NDM-1 gene is the most powerful superbug around.

For full article, click:
[url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197616.php]What Is NDM-1?[/url]

They have found this bacteria in Canada and 3 American states, and it's all over Europe . eek.
15-09-10, 04:34 AM
boobaa

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Originally Posted by vashti [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

NDM-1, which stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 is a gene (DNA code) carried by some bacteria. If a bacteria strain carries the NDM-1 gene it is resistant to nearly all antibiotics, including carbapenem antibiotics - also known as antibiotics of last resort.

Carbepenems are the most powerful antibiotics, used as a last resort for many bacterial infections, such as E. coli and Klebsiella. The NDM-1 gene makes the bacterium produce an enzyme which neutralizes the activity of carbepenem antibiotics.

A bacterium carrying the NDM-1 gene is the most powerful superbug around.

For full article, click:
[url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197616.php]What Is NDM-1?[/url]

They have found this bacteria in Canada and 3 American states, and it's all over Europe . eek.

Is this some kind of newly developed bacteria?

I am sure scientists picked it up in most distant place on Earth just to study it and accidentally spread it around.

Anyway, we are too dependent on antibiotics. Our bodies create antibiotics also, therefore I haven't had the need to take artificial ones, ever.

What do you mean all over Europe?

Then be it, then we die, ****ing deal with it and live on.
15-09-10, 05:08 AM
the_robot

Fear not, vash! I will eat this NDM-1 and stop the plague! :-P
15-09-10, 05:58 AM
vashti

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Fear not, vash! I will eat this NDM-1 and stop the plague! :-P

Do you think you can do it before it makes its way to my hospital? MRSA freaks me out enough as is. Thanks, darling!

Booba - it's apparently a new(ish) mutation that is more resistant to treatment than are the other superbugs already out there. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, though, so I won't go blaming science.
16-09-10, 12:07 AM
the_robot

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Do you think you can do it before it makes its way to my hospital? MRSA freaks me out enough as is. Thanks, darling!

Hmm... that depends... I'd need some math to know if I can make it.
16-09-10, 12:13 AM
asdfg789

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Originally Posted by boobaa [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

I am sure scientists picked it up in most distant place on Earth just to study it and accidentally spread it around.

Anyway, we are too dependent on antibiotics. Our bodies create antibiotics also, therefore I haven't had the need to take artificial ones, ever.

What do you mean all over Europe?

I believe it was originally discovered in India. Spread to Europe through people who visited India for cheaper medical treatments.
I have the same sentiment about antibiotics. I wish there was a better approach. :(
16-09-10, 05:01 AM
Petit Papillon

Eat garlic!! Garlic is natural antibiotic :D

I mean it.
16-09-10, 08:05 AM
shammi

I think the latest news on this is they have already found a antibiotic for it, the one case here in Toronto is already better now.
16-09-10, 10:30 AM
asdfg789

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Originally Posted by Petit Papillon [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

Eat garlic!! Garlic is natural antibiotic :D

I mean it.

Yes !! Chew it raw to repel unwelcomed friends. Hang them around your neck to repel vampires !!! :)
16-09-10, 11:30 AM
vashti

That's all I need at work... even STINKIER patients. :D
16-09-10, 02:37 PM
Petit Papillon

I love garlicccccccc .... But it stinks :/
16-09-10, 03:41 PM
Gribble

Should be more regulation in regards to antibiotics. Only young children and the elderly should have access to them with the exception of the extremely ill. Elderly's debatable. Not sure there's much purpose in strengthening germs by preserving people in advanced states of atrophy to begin with.
16-09-10, 03:51 PM
asdfg789

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Should be more regulation in regards to antibiotics. Only young children and the elderly should have access to them with the exception of the extremely ill. Elderly's debatable. Not sure there's much purpose in strengthening germs by preserving people in advanced states of atrophy to begin with.

i think the problem is worse in developing countries where you can buy them over the counter without a prescription. And the people buying them are not even educated on proper usage - ie completing the required dosage. so then more bugs become resistant and these bugs of course spread back to countries with strict regulations.

i dont know the solution to this. we should all just chew garlic :)
16-09-10, 03:59 PM
Gribble

Or let people die as they're supposed to so this world isn't swarming with starving, breeding imbeciles. Hm. Perhaps NDM-1 and its ilk are nature's response to human audacity.
16-09-10, 04:15 PM
Mish

Only the strongest will survive. There can be only one!

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16-09-10, 07:50 PM
boobaa

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I love garlicccccccc .... But it stinks :/

I guess I am the only one who thinks it smells quite good.
16-09-10, 07:59 PM
Petit Papillon

Garlic do smell good, just the way your body smells after eating garlic... It's unbearable , of course for others :)
16-09-10, 08:24 PM
kitkitkitty

garlic bread breath can be pretty gross but if my mum uses it in stuff like ratatouille it doesn't leave much of an aftertaste. maybe it's just me though :D
16-09-10, 08:26 PM
Petit Papillon

You're right kitty.
But I love to eat bread with slices of garlic on it MMMMM I actually do it when I'm at my mum's and I'm not seeing any people for few days :D
16-09-10, 08:32 PM
kitkitkitty

sounds yummy. what i haven't had in a while is olive bread. only bread that i don't need to toast. mmmmmm.
17-09-10, 02:15 AM
asdfg789

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I guess I am the only one who thinks it smells quite good.

raw garlic smells bad but fried chopped garlic smells marvellous !! quite commonly used in chinese cooking :)
17-09-10, 03:27 AM
kitkitkitty

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quite commonly used in chinese cooking :)

my local chinese takeaway does a yummy chinese chow mein. i don't have it with beansprouts/ veg and i think they overcompensate with the garlic at times. needless to say i do have to brush my teeth after. but the taste is soooo worth it hehe.
05-10-10, 10:08 PM
Incognito

I think garlic smells good period, cooking or raw. Sometimes after dinner where I used chopped garlic I'll fan my hand in front of my face so that I can smell the scent that is still left on my hands.
05-10-10, 10:10 PM
vashti

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Originally Posted by Incognito [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]

I think garlic smells good period, cooking or raw. Sometimes after dinner where I used chopped garlic I'll fan my hand in front of my face so that I can smell the scent that is still left on my hands.

I love the smell of garlic, but I don't want to smell like it!
07-10-10, 11:19 AM
Only-virgins

Pffft every time there is some threat of an epidemic some Asians die somewhere and we just get a panic on the news. Nothing ever happens here. Nothing is going to de-throne the black plague yet. Bring it on. I never got the stupid gay free flu shot everywhere and I still have no flu. The boy who cried wolf? Screw these people spreading panic pointlessly because one dude in a hospital turned up with it. I'm not convinced till it is on my street. At which point I will take it and die, who cares. We had a good run anyways and evolution failed with our women so it is time to restart.