Superbug Resistant to ALL Antibiotics Found in China
Including “last resort” drugs
antibiotic resistance
The day that doctors, scientists and health experts have long feared and continually warned about may have arrived, as a mutation discovered in people and livestock in China has been found to make bacteria resistant to all antibiotics – including “last resort” drugs.
A gene known as MCR-1 is becoming more common in bacteria found in China. The mutation allows bacteria to resist a group of harsh antibiotics known as polymyxins, specifically a drug called colistin. Colistin is considered the absolute last line of defense against bacteria when all other antibiotics have failed, but not even it can knock out the newly discovered pathogen. These MCR-1 genes are basically invincible and they could theoretically end up affecting all infectious pathogens. Time reports:
“A new report found bacteria resistant to colistin, a drug used when all other treatments have failed, in 16 patients, 15% of raw meat samples and a fifth of the animals tested. The mutation that made the bacteria resistant to the drug is called the MCR-1 gene, and spread resistance between various bacteria including E. coli.” [1]
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned in 2012 said that colistin was vital to human health. Despite the WHO’s classification, farmers around the globe continued feeding the antibiotic to their animals in large quantities to fatten them up. Use of colistin, the most widely used polymyxin, is especially widespread in China, where farmers give it to pigs and chickens. [2]
Experts say it might not be long before the world is struggling to cope with the spread of uncontrollable superbugs. MCR-1 seems to move easily between the strains of E. coli and other common bacteria, including Klebsiella and Pseudomonas, which cause many blood, urinary and gut infections. Chinese researchers wrote in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases that these germs will likely put people in mortal danger. Based on their horrific findings, the team predicts a return to the Dark Ages. [3]
“These are extremely worryingly results,” professor and co-author on the study Liu Jian-Hua, from China’s Southern Agricultural University, said in a press release.
Liu and his colleagues warn that while it might seem smart to limit the use of colistin, at this point it’s just too late. The bacteria seem to hang on to the plasmid even when the antibiotic isn’t being used, suggesting that the problem is here to stay.
In the U.S., we haven’t fed colistin to livestock en masse, but an estimated 70% of antibiotics considered vitally important to human health are used in farm animals and one day we’ll likely need drugs like colistin to fight previously easy-to-treat bugs. [4]
Antibiotic resistance kills some 700,000 people worldwide each year. That number is expected to climb to 10 million by 2050.
Sources:
[1] Time
[2] New Scientist
[3] RT
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| Julie Fidler is a freelance writer, legal blogger, and the author of Adventures in Holy Matrimony: For Better or the Absolute Worst. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two ridiculously spoiled cats. She occasionally pontificates on her blog. |
While the article is correct about some of this, the amount of misnomers that seem particularly designed to SCARE people is ridiculous.
The MCR-1 Gene isn’t invulnerable. It is resistant to Colistin. JUST Colistin. It is a mobile gene and can link with other mobile genes that are antibiotic resistant to become proper superbugs, but again MCR-1 is resistant to JUST Colistin. If a pathogen happens to already be resistant to other genes and mutates alongside the MCR-1 gene and combines, then yes it could theoretically become resistant to all antibiotics.
Until then; we still have the ability to combine antibiotics to treat people. The amount of deaths caused by AB resistant is expected to grow. It makes sense; and yes, this was going to happen eventually.
You also have to look at big pharmacies like big tech companies. Tech companies always have the next product already ready, and so we should hope that big pharma will have the next solution already ready because of human stupidity to use important antibiotics in livestock because “it’s good for their business”.
Consider it a wake up call, but we’re not all going to drop dead any time soon, and so I would definitely recommend against fear mongering with people. Definitely not healthy. Also the US was also doing it. Just not as much because the conditions for their livestock were -better- than the conditions in other places. Here in the UK we’re restricting usage of Colistin.
It’s a case of lowering the usage of it now rather than continuing. It’s not exactly going to do the animals any good after all.
Now please stop trying to scare people with bold characters. 😉
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Again nice article Julie, but a truly scary one as well. I didn’t even realize this was being used in livestock.
not as scary as gmo’s
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Only to a simpleton like you that is scared of their own shadow.
I take it the article(s) got ya a little butt hurt………..boo hoo Bobo
Yes I think it is scary that some countries use our last line of defense for animals. I have no problem with using the older antibiotics that have already been compromised, for animals. At least I don’t pray to a false god like silver to save me from reality, lol, you are really that stupid aren’t you.
Colloidal silver has many proven uses.
Is the modern science so corrupted that they will dismiss anything outside of their group think view points?
Colloidal silver isn’t considered safe or effective for any of the health claims manufacturers make. Silver has no known purpose in the body. Nor is it an essential mineral, as some sellers of silver products claim.
Colloidal silver products are made of tiny silver particles suspended in a liquid — the same type of precious metal used in jewelry, dental fillings, silverware and other consumer goods.
Colloidal silver products are usually marketed as dietary supplements that are taken by mouth. Colloidal silver products also come in forms to be injected or applied to the skin.
Manufacturers of colloidal silver products often claim that they are cure–alls, boosting your immune system, fighting bacteria and viruses, and treating cancer, HIV/AIDS, shingles, herpes, eye ailments and prostatitis.
However, no sound scientific studies to evaluate these health claims have been published in reputable medical journals. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has taken action against some manufacturers of colloidal silver products for making unproven health claims.
It’s not clear how much colloidal silver may be harmful, but it can build up in your body’s tissues over months or years. Most commonly, this results in argyria (ahr–JIR–e–uh), a blue-gray discoloration of your skin, eyes, internal organs, nails and gums. While argyria doesn’t pose a serious health problem, it can be a cosmetic concern because it doesn’t go away when you stop taking silver products.
Rarely, excessive doses of colloidal silver can cause possibly irreversible serious health problems, including kidney damage and neurological problems such as seizures. Colloidal silver products may also interact with medications, including penicillamine (Cuprimine, Depen), quinolone antibiotics, tetracycline and thyroxine (Levothroid, Levoxyl, Synthroid) medications.
With
Brent A. Bauer, M.D.
Huh, no sound scientific studies?
thesilveredge dot com/studies dot shtml
There seem to be a lot of studies?
Ignore the marketing, the studies can be searched for through their title name for further verification.
Get off your google scholar there Stinky, it filters the results.
No thanks, I will listen to the doctors who claim there are no valid ones out there. Go ahead and turn blue, maybe that can be your new army!!!! The Smurf Brigade!!!! Will you paint the blowup doll your claim that you married blue as well?
Bobo it’s obvious your as lost about colloidal silver as you are about gmo’s.
Yes if you wish to look like a smurf go ahead there loser boy.
you don’t get blue from colliodal silver. Just shows how ignorant you are and don’t research shiiiiiiiiiiiit
Ever hear of Argyria? Thanks once again for proving you are a total moron.
Ever hear of disinformation and media bias?
You freelance activists bash anybody who uses youtube or pictures as evidence, or any independent sources, until it fits into your agenda.
1 person as proof, LMAO
The Mayo clinic? One of the premier medical facilities isn’t proof? LOL it is better than the witch doctors you quote. Of course what do you expect from someone that has to be mated with a blowup doll and plays gi joe at every opportunity.
The real question is not on the name, but to the common human traits.
Let me ask this, did the person practice ethical and moral standards in his decision making?
Where there any outside influences regarding his decision?
Is a Doctor above scientific research and studies?
Maybe the scientific and MD’s communities could work a little better together?
Back to the study you provided and the scientific research studies I provided.
Though all can be legitimately questioned, since we are down to he said, she said.
Blind faith is a real bear.
You provided 1, I provided many, I’ll use mine since majority rules, kind of like your argument about labeling.
LOL, I could have provided as many as you wanted, but I do not want to waste more with a moron like you.
Great men are not born great, they grow great.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
silvermedicine dot org/argyria.html
Oh yes if it is on the internet it has to be true. LOL, you are so stupid. Why don’t you take silver daily and post your pictures for us.
Blue man wasn’t using colloidal silver, he added salt to hurry the
process and in doing so made silver chloride, which is not even
effective. also you don’t use a lot. Just about everything is toxic/side effects if you take to much. You also need to cover the area that has the silver on it from the light.
Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me.
Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something
themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something,
go get it. Period.
Blue man wasn’t using colloidal silver, he added salt to hurry the
process and in doing so made silver chloride, which is not even
effective.
also you don’t use a lot. Just about everything is toxic
if you take to much. You also need to cover the area that has the
silver on it from the light.
And do you do that during the full moon while standing on one leg in the presence of a red head? That must be how the got the blue man group. You are an idiot.
Either he made it wrong or was taking way to much. pretty much everything works that way. vitamins will kill if you take to much. Does that make me an idiot to state the facts? Let me put in easier terms so you can understand Bobo. Of all the people taking colloidal silver why is there only a handful with this problem?
Lol,it never leaves your body! It isn’t how much you take at one time you moron. It is how much you take in your life!
Colloidal silver is eliminated by the kidneys, lymph
system and bowel after several weeks. wrong again moron bobo. maybe lay off the fluoride a while. several sources to get this easy info bobo. Oh ya your dis info………
http://www.silver-colloids dot com/Papers/AltmanStudy.PDF
page 3
The Blue Man story became a major media disinformation event which was
produced by a public relations firm and paid for by a pharmaceutical
interest
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035219_colloidal_silver_blue_man_skin.html#ixzz3t7ADPDZK
yes it leaves your body. I left links but my last comment doesn’t appear. here is the blue man disinfo story. Here that DISINFO just like you bobo.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035219_colloidal_silver_blue_man_skin.html
Colloidal silver is eliminated by the kidneys, lymph
system and bowel after several weeks. wrong again moron bobo.
maybe lay off the fluoride a while. several sources to get this easy
info bobo. Oh ya your dis info………
http://www.silver-colloids dot com/Papers/AltmanStudy.PDF
page 3
The Blue Man story became a major media disinformation event which was
produced by a public relations firm and paid for by a pharmaceutical
interest.
http://www.naturalnews dot com/035219_colloidal_silver_blue_man_skin.html
Strange how you seem to know more than the experts, but again you always seem to be a know it all. In reality you are just another dope. Hopefully you haven’t reproduced to pass your stupidity on.
plenty more evidence out there to research it. Again you don’t do that because your Disinfo. I have about a 150 IQ bobo. That’s what roughly double yours…………..LOL
LOL, you left out the decimal point there moron it is 1.5 for your IQ
I’m sorry you so butt hurt about me having an IQ double yours. All you got is name calling or changing the subject. Monsatan shilling 101
https://rebelsiren.wordpress dot com/2014/01/22/dispelling-internet-disinformation-tactics-debunking-the-debunkers/
LOL, I will put mine up against yours any day there pal. Of course maybe you are correct and do have that good of an iq, because a lot of intelligent people have zero common sense and that parts fits you. Of course you also fit the total moron bill as well.
your IQ against mine. that would be great! everyone here could use a laugh other than the usual ones they get from your bs.
Yes they would be laughing at you.
Goonies never say die.
Ive had it with all these snakes on a plane.
Who is, gargamel ?
I will listen to the doctors who claim there are no valid ones out there. LMAO!!
But ignore the scientists, well unless they are owned by the GMO corporations.
The scientist agree as well.
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana, I said “No but I want a regular banana later, so yeah.
We need to go Deeper.
Back in the day of the westward migration, settlers would throw a couple silver dollars into there milk barrel. This would keep the milk good for over a week, as opposed to a couple days.
I see this mcr-1 was in Germany 5 years ago. So this isn’t really new.
Last night I watched the “War of the Copraphages ” on the X-Files. This had the invasion of the Ebola infested Cockroaches in Millers Grove.
That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. Please, enlighten s with some scientific data.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
LOL, you don’t really have a clue do you.
I may not know everything but compared to you I feel pretty comfy.
Never fall in love on the Jersey Shore Rob.
LMAO, didn’t realize the CAFO’s are death factories. I have seen the piles of dead animals collected every morning and stacked for disposal, I’m sure they are sold to the pet food companies.
You must have not ever seen livestock then.
LOL, what channel did you see that one on? In the real world we like to keep ours alive with good quality gmos and then send them to market to be distributed around the world to feed the masses.
With great power, comes great responsibility
Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.