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>From Wash DC Post
via http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/w28resis.html
>>>This is reminiscent of the problems the comfort ladies in the Philippines (and
other locales) had with taking forty pills over ten days' time and being abstinent.
The developed a bunch of resistant cooties, too. When the natural defenses are put
into atrophy, morality notwithstanding, the cooties usually win. Another good one
is TB, on the comeback trail. A<>E<>R <<<
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Disease-causing bacteria growing more immune to 'wonder drugs’
Thursday, December 28, 2000
By GUY GUGLIOTTA
WASHINGTON POST
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One of nature’s most common - and dangerous - disease-causing bacteria is developing
antibiotic-resistant strains at an increasing rate, the latest evidence that overuse
of these "wonder drugs" is causing them to lose their effectiveness.
A report in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that the rate
of multidrug resistance for the microbe Streptococcus pneumoniae had increased from
9 percent to 14 percent between 1995 and 1998. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most
common cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and inner ear infections in the
United States.
"The emergence of S. pneumoniae with anti-microbial resistance is a matter of great
concern," said the research team, led by Cynthia Whitney of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. "Multidrug-resistant pneumococci are common and are
increasing."
As recently as the 1930s, the fatality rate from pneumonia in the United States
stood at 35 percent. With the introduction of antibiotics, the rate began to drop in
sharp increments until it reached 5 percent to 8 percent with the introduction of
penicillin.
The CDC team collected 12,045 samples of Streptococcus pneumoniae between 1995 and
1998 from a population of 16.5 million spread throughout the country. During the
period, the rate of resistance to penicillin rose from 21 percent to 25 percent, the
report said, but the rate of resistance to three or more classes of drugs rose much
more sharply - from 9 percent to 14 percent.
The study found a higher proportion of penicillin-resistant bacteria among children
and white Americans than among adults and black Americans, statistics the team said
probably reflected whites’ easier access to antibiotics and parents’ greater
likelihood of dosing their children with drugs.
Furthermore, the report said, although bacterial strains "that are susceptible to
penicillin are rarely resistant to another agent," strains "that are resistant to
penicillin are likely to be resistant to multiple other agents."
The chief culprit in microbial resistance is overuse of antibiotics, the team said,
and in an editorial accompanying the study, Richard Wenzel and Michael Edmond of
Virginia Commonwealth University noted that approximately 25,000 tons of antibiotics
are consumed each year in the United States, about half by humans and the rest by
livestock and agriculture.
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"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
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