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   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:21:15 -0400, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
      
   > On 8/1/13 11:07 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >> David DeLaney  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> And, and this is the subtle but terrifying thing? Hospitals are where   
   >>> the drug-resistant BACTERIA hang out and evolve and multiply. And   
   >>> infect people who wouldn't have come in contact with it in home-care   
   >>> or hospice or outpatient surgery, etc., and kill them because the   
   >>> hospital literally doesn't have anything left that'll work against   
   >>> that strain.   
   >   
   > 	Fire and live steam still work against ALL strains. True, you may   
   find   
   > them a bit painful also, but there ARE things that work against them.   
   >   
   >   This ... is a risk.   
   >>   
   >> Thirteen years ago, everyone was doing "top story of the century"   
   >> features.  My choice was:   
   >>   
   >> Top story of the 20th century:  Antibiotics.   
   >> Top story of the 21st century:  No antibiotics.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > 	They're already finding new candidates for antibiotics. I   
   seriously   
   > doubt they won't find more nice, usable antibiotics in the next 10   
   > years, let alone the next 80 or so.   
      
   In some cases, microbes will lose resistance to antibiotics that haven't   
   been prescribed in a while.  About three years ago, I had a case of MRSA.   
   They cured it with a mix of two sulfa antibiotics, the sort of thing that   
   was used before penicillin was invented.   
      
   --   
   John F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com   
   "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot   
   drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   
      
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