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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Notice how much doctors operate you & dismiss you at your home. That's that -> you're better of with home germs, then the hospital ones!
----------------------------------------This project is too much going into pharmaceuticals. So I don't expect any of the projects here about MRSA, but you never know... ;) |
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KliK, I thought early releases from hospitals were founded in the desire to save money in the (in Denmark public, tax financed) health sector. But you may have a point. Scaringly many people leave hospitals with infections, and perhaps your risk of catching an infection equals the time you stay in the 'dangerous' hospital environment. Luckily most of the infections are - still - treatable, but an infection is still a set back after surgery or whatever.
But what if they were really hard to cure? Even impossible to cure? You’re probably right that research into fighting MRSA shall not land on our tables, but I for one would be pleased. A few days ago I listened to an interview with Lone Gram, a professor at DTU (Denmark’s Technical University) Systems Biology. She happens to be the great-granddaughter of Hans Christian Gram who discovered the Gram Stain. During the interview she mentioned this anecdotal fact used by a collegue of hers: That Lone Gram and a corn plant have more DNA in common than do two different types of bacteria. So there would be lots of WUs in uncovering these mysteries. Alged, I found this from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control with data from 2014. The headline on the map says: Staphylococcus aureus. Percentage (%) og invasive isolates with resistance to meticillin (MRSA), by country, EU/EEA countries, 2014. |
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alged
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Thks or the link and info. Hope the sources collecting these stats are reliable.Time will tell... or an eventual whistle blower.
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I should have thought about being more skeptical myself, alged.
Not everything that comes from seemingly trustworthy sources need necessarily be the truth. On the other hand: The map is not exactly colored rosy, is it? I think the picture is dark in more senses of the word. |
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News item from DR (Denmark's Radio) December 10:
Thousands of patients to be examined for dangerous multiresistant bacteria The goal is to prevent patients from infecting each other with multiresistant bacteria. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ At present we don't know how many patients are infected with multiresistant bacteria that may be dangerous because they cannot be treated with penicillin. New research should give an answer to that. Researchers from Region Southern Jutland have received a grant of 3,5 mio DKK ~ some US$ 550,000* from the Health and Senior Ministry to study the prevalence of multiresistant bacteria in eight emergency wards in Denmark. This will be done by examining all patients upon arrival. Around 10,600 patients will be included during the trial. - We will ask all patients if we may take samples from different areas of their bodies in order to find out if they carry these particular bacteria. Besides we will interview them to find out if they have been at risk of infection, one of the researchers explain The study is aimed at giving doctors a more effective means to find resistant patients faster so that they can be isolated before they infect other patients. - In the long run it will mean that we will be able to shelter patients from those infected with multiresistant bacteria or if they're carriers help them find out what can be done about it. The project will run in all regions of Denmark and begins in January 2018 with the results being published in the fall of 2018 *not much, but still money For once I think our politicians have acted proactively (after the damage is done) and do the right thing: Make a registration of the problem as a base to act upon. |
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This is not about MRSA but deals with a new and parallel development happening in the agricultural sector about which medical doctors ring the alarm bells.
Recap Scaringly many insects have disappeared without specific reasons given. They do harm to Apis Tintinnambulator’s honey bees by using neonicotinoids to treat rape seeds before planting. We discussed that here In this thread we have discussed that they have vaccinated our pigs into ticking bombs of mutating MRSA resistant bacteria harmful to many animal species and to humans. Now they are giving us drug resistant fungii --- o --- DR (Denmark’s Radio) article February 11, 2018 Seriously ill people with an already compromised immune defense risk catching a resistant and potential deadly fungus infection of the lungs. Several European countries inclusive of Denmark are facing rising problems of resistance to the medicine which hitherto has been able to beat the fungus. There is no systematic surveillance of the situation, but in recent years the fungus infections have caused several deaths. The fungus identified as Aspergillus Fumigatus is present everywhere in nature, and far the most of us breathe it without being harmed, but it is dangerous in some – especially to people with a weak immune system i.g. leukemia patients, organ transplants, and people with blood diseases. The researchers fear that the resistance is the consequense of azeoles – the medicine best suited to treat the infections – being used as a fungicide for conservation of wood and textiles and that the agricultural sector use large quantities to fight fungus diseases in the crops. These fungicides are almost identical with those used for treatment of infected people. The Netherlands have a large problem with resistant fungii. One in eight Dutch patients with the serious fungus infection now have the restistent strain. Just a few years after the introduction of azeloles in farming the first patient was diagnosed with resistant fungus. In Denmark ’Farming and Food’ – an agricultural interest business organization – says there is no final proof that resistance happens because of agriculture --- o --- We need ’final proof’, don’t we? All the national and EU bureaucracy should turn every stone and take their time, right? As happened with antibiotics and farm animals and MRSA resistant bacteria, is in the process of happening with fungicides and deadly lung diseases. What will be next? How can this be allowed to go on time and again? There has to be other ways. |
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