Edited by xD&Cox, 09 March 2007 - 04:56 PM.
epidemic kills 200+ in israel
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 04:55 PM
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 05:04 PM
#3
Posted 09 March 2007 - 05:06 PM
exact number is not released to calm the public..
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"Of 130 cases, there was a 30 percent death rate in our hospital," she said, adding that there was nothing that could be done to fight the bacteria which is from the klebsiella genus.
"The bacteria has been in most of the large hospitals in the country," Dr Galia Rahav, a specialist in infectious diseases at Tel Aviv's Tel Hashomer hospital said.
It is probably nosocomial.
Klebsiella is an enteric pathogen.
If you guys only knew what has been going on for years in every hospital in this country.
Just never get sick and if you do stay away from hospitals.
The epidemic is a drug resistant form of tuberculosis . It is airborne , as is all forms of tuberculosis . Bad news.
Yes.
Worse than anything that catches the news media's attention.
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 05:33 PM
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 06:50 PM
The epidemic is a drug resistant form of tuberculosis . It is airborne , as is all forms of tuberculosis . Bad news.
no its not. TB and Klebs are different organisms. Klebs is largely a soil born organism which can cause some repiratory infections in the immunocompromised. In the reasonably healthy, urinary tract infections are its most common infection and sometimes wounds. It can be Blactamase producing giving it penicillin resistance and no doubt in israel they have a multiresistant organism thats causing havoc in hospitals would be my guess. They do have a lot of wounded dying. Its a big deal if its not isolated.
Edited by libs, 09 March 2007 - 06:57 PM.
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 08:29 PM
Edited by xD&Cox, 09 March 2007 - 08:37 PM.
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 08:42 PM
March 05, 2007
The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous -- for people. The drug, called cefquinome, belongs to a class of highly potent antibiotics that are among medicine's last defense against several serious human infections. No drug from that class has ever been approved in the United States for use in animals.
The American Medical Association and about a dozen other health groups warned the Food and Drug Administration that giving cefquinome to animals would probably speed the emergence of microbes resistant to that important class of antibiotic, as has happened with other drugs. Those super-microbes could then spread to people.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 08:55 PM
http://www.scienceda...070307-15562600
It was a pneumonia , not tuberculosis .
Another link :
http://www.jpost.com.../JPArticle/Show
Edited by colours, 09 March 2007 - 09:00 PM.
#9
Posted 10 March 2007 - 02:58 AM
i never understood why md docs are so into the stock market. you have to see my dentist, he is scaring me...
arent you doing fine already... it must be the boredom from within ...geezzz
same reason they go to the races I guess. Fun. Addiction. The thrill of fear. The memory of the win.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 05:24 AM