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[jebbypal]

twistedchick has an incredibly interesting take on world events for the past couple of months. It's an analysis that could all too well be 100% true.

In other news, I've actually kind of found it difficult to the news blogging for the past week or so. Between all the shit hitting the fan with global warming and Bush/Putin trying to put us back into the days of the Cuban Missile crisis, it's a little too draining. I'm sure my outrage will lead me to continue it, but for the moment, I may be backing off a bit.

I do have to throw these out there though - It's not just honey bees that are dying. Bumble bees are dying too.

And as if you didn't have enough to worry about with MRSA and the emergence of deadly bacteria that cause ear infections, Six American Military hospitals have been affected by outbreaks of deadly bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii isn't new, but in the past, it was pretty much considered an oportunistic infection. Now though, drug resistant forms of it have developed.

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[jebbypal]

I have to believe these super bugs evolved, in part, because of the US hysteria about germs.

mmm...Yes and no. Yes, over prescribing of antibiotics and misuse contributed to the rapid emergence of the multiple resistant strains in the last twenty to thirty years, but at the same time, microbes and viruses are the rulers of this earth any way you look at it. They are gangbusters at evolution. Frankly, I'm more concerned about the well known effects of the antibiotic run off just from handsoaps etc on flora and fauna (not to mention microbes themselves).

The biggest thing is the doctors themselves are idiots. It made me sick every time that I saw a doctor at the university wearing their white lab coat outside to get food at the truck - you know it didn't get changed before they saw patients (or vice versa). It's generally very idiotic habits that people have the contribute to the widespread contamination of a hospital.

The one that gets me is that you know the vacinne that was developed w/in the last ten years that targets the virus that is responsible for 80% of all infant ear infections? Turns out, that guy was our buddy. Since that niche has been cleared out, a little brother virus that never caused any problem has started taking over -- except it tends to cause a higher percentage of meningitis and even deaths.