Posted by stjames on December 7, 2003, at 16:19:47
My dear friend Val, who is a molecular microbiologist, helped form many of my concepts.
MMB is where it all happens, it defines biological life. the parasitologist's dilemma is that all emergent conditions like AIDS, Ebola, ect have actually always been here (we have samples of AIDS from 1950-60's) but it is more likly to be made ill
by the common things. As we cure the common things
we "flush out" the uncommon. The fact that we a moving into areas that were uninhabited has something to do with this, also. So the invention
of antibiotics and vaccines has caused, decades later, many uncommon and deadly pathogens to emerge.However, clearly no one wants polio or septcisis
from a simple cut. The choice of antibiotics and vaccines is clear. Now we are at the point that we have but one antibiotic between as and all the deadly pathogens. The major deadly pathogens have done a good job sharing their DNA and are resistant to all but
one antibiotic, vancomycin. Increasing reliance on vancomycin has led to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). By 1993, however, more than 10 percent of hospital-acquired enterococci infections reported to the CDC were resistant to vancomycin. From the discovery of
antibiotics to this and the last decade we did little to discover new antib's.So, what say you ? Does toxicology have a dilemma
such as this ? The parasitologist might say it was always a loosing battle and we just bought time.
Pathogens are so far ahead of our science; do you see a way out ?
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