Mutated Strep & Scarlet Fever

[Chemar]

Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries & an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. And with it is the rise of a mutated strain that appears to be more contagious.......

 

to read the article please go to

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110627/ap_on_he_me/as_med_hong_kong_scarlet_fever

[mkur]

Found this website by CDC on strep

 

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/biotech/strep/strepindex.htm

 

Thanks for posting

[mama2alex]

Thanks for posting!

 

In the article they say "But the overuse and misuse of drugs — patients not finishing a full prescription or taking antibiotics for a virus when they are only effective against bacteria — have allowed old bugs to fight back and eventually overpower antibiotics, rendering some of them useless."

 

 

Interesting they don't mention the use of low-dose antibiotics in livestock. The Natural Resources Defense Council and others have recently filed a lawsuit against the FDA for this very reason. See this article: http://www.onearth.org/article/you-want-superbugs-with-that

 

Seems there is a huge amount of money to be lost if antibiotics are taken out of the food supply, so the party line has become "overuse/misuse in treating human patients is to blame."