CDC: 'We've reached the end of antibiotics'
 

'We've reached the end of antibiotics': Top CDC expert declares that 'miracle drugs' that have saved millions are no match against 'superbugs' because people have overmedicated themselves



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"A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end.

'For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about "The end of antibiotics, question mark?"' said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. 'Well, now I would say you can change the title to "The end of antibiotics, period.?'

The associate director of the CDC sat down with Frontline over the summer for a lengthy interview about the growing problem of antibacterial resistance.

Srinivasan, who is also featured in a Frontline report called 'Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria,' which aired Tuesday, said that both humans and livestock have been overmedicated to such a degree that bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics.

?We're in the post-antibiotic era,' he said. 'There are patients for whom we have no therapy, and we are literally in a position of having a patient in a bed who has an infection, something that five years ago even we could have treated, but now we can?t.?.

Dr Srinivasan offered an example of this notion, citing the recent case of three Tampa Bay Buccaneers players who made headlines after reportedly contracting potentially deadly MRSA infections, which until recently were largely restricted to hospitals.

About 10 years ago, however, the CDC official began seeing outbreaks of different kinds of MRSA infections in schools and gyms.

?In hospitals, when you see MRSA infections, you oftentimes see that in patients who have a catheter in their blood, and that creates an opportunity for MRSA to get into their bloodstream,? he said.

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i absolutely 100% unequivocably think you are completely on point with this.

if anyone gets a chance, watch that frontline episode.

i am glad the era is over, i think it was well-motivated but became perverted over the years and distorted by profits and thinking that anti-biotics are a panacea. moreiver, doctors have abused them profusely. i can't tell you how many times i've been prescribed a broad-spectrum ab without a culture! huh? just throwing an ab at me willy nilly and if it doesn't work just come back and you'll throw another at me? fuuuuuuuuck

why not run a culture? i've been denied requests to culture in fact, to get a specific anti-biotic. fucking fuck wow.

This is why I ONLY take medication when it's absolutely necessary. My wife will wake up with a stuffed nose and call the doctor for an Rx, while I will be almost on my deathbed before I take something.

To many people rely on meds as an easy solution, but you need to let your body build up antibodies to fight off germs.

People are so fucking stupid
Taking antis without going to the doctor, doctors throwing antis at everyone for no good reason, morons who do not finish antis when they're prescribed, etc

Idiots

It is no fucking wonder.

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Z packs FTW

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Good to see something's going to be done, interesting timing with Obamacare :2 cents:

Bring on the fucking zombies!#% :pimp

you guys are idiots if you think this story is true.... go take your meds so you don't get me and my kids sick ....

I had one of these doctors "not prescribe" my son anti's when I requested it... of course he thought he knew more than me and ended up putting my son in the hospital almost dying.... take your ab's

You've been hit in the head to many times.

Seriously. We take our kids to the doctor's office when they catch funk at school and the first thing she does is throw some sort of liquid amoxycillin or some shit like that. She chalks it up for kids just being kids and not washing their hands, recess playground, etc. As well as that may be all fine and dandy, the fact of the matter is it has made me stop bringing them to the doctor's office altogether.

When one of our children gets sick, we take them to the hospital ER. It may take a bit longer but they run the whole 9 on them. Chest xrays, throat swabs, etc. They usually end up giving us a short term script for whatever their outcome is but it's at that point whether or not we gauge if we should take them to their general practitioner, specialist, etc. or not. :2 cents:

think this is scare tactics against creating these super bugs? Antibiotics is fairly effective

Until your body build up an immunity to them and they are useless... and then when you really need them? You're fucked. :2 cents:

Careful, the chances you will become infected in a hospital are huge. Nosocomial infections (infections originating in a hospital) kill more than 100,000 per year and infect millions of patients.

This whole super germ shit is serious stuff.

hospitals are petri dishes with revolving doors. come on in, get some staph and please exit to your left.


iwould bet a doctor's office is almost as disgusting.

i'd bet that 99% of all antibiotics prescriptions are completely unnecessary

I don't know if it's that high but I'd say you're close.

Whatever happened to people just allowing themselves to try to heal naturally first? There was a time when you'd get a bad cold and you'd rest, take vitamin C, drink hot soup and maybe some Nyquil or Neo Citron or something like it from the drug store. But slowly over time people have gotten so the first sign of a sore throat and they're getting prescribed abs.


For those posting funnies, MRSA is no joke.

you forgot eating chicken stuffed with antibiotics!

Even if you've only had penicillin and nothing stronger in the past, they're likely to give you the most ultra-modern antibiotic in the world if you go to a hospital. Even though there were probably 50 weaker ones that would have cured you just fine. Hospitals are the place where you're most likely to catch something after all. Kinda shitty deal.

But the line about people over-medicating themselves is funny. Nobody does it to themselves, it's done to them whether out of ignorance or what have you.

I normally agree with you, but you are wrong on this. While your ONE case, AB's were needed, MOST people are getting them for colds, or just about anything.

Then doctors throw about 2-3 different ones at you, without figuring out what one you need. Also mixed with AB's in cows and Chickens, things are changing. Take a quick look at third world countries that can barely cure the super chlamydia.

I see people posting on Facebook all the time, about what whould I do to reduce my kids Fever of 100 or 101. Umm NOTHING, the Fever is killing the bad shit.

Meds, Meds Meds, Crazy world we live in,....

Vitamin C

Back to millions dying from the common cold (think:American Indians).

Thank GOD you all live in America! Good bye! I am not even going to waste my time reading this shit.

Yes good old VITAMIN C .. works for me

You are usually very intelligent but you must be up the fuck out of your mind to take a child to the ER when it is not absolutely the fuck necessary. You KNOW how many HORRIBLE infections people manage to pick up at the ER... right? If you insist on doing this, for the love of god, make sure they kids don't touch ANYTHING when they go in and bring your own sheet to put down for them to lay on or something.

Meanwhile, if you're one of these who gives a kid an anti at the drop of a hat, someday when they REALLY need one, it won't work.. So, be careful!!!

PS: I misread part of your post because I'm doing 1000 things at once... disregard the part which was wrong

Milk and chicken and other meats with antis are a huge part of the problem these days

I would never accept antis growing up.. not unless they knew exactly what ailed me and what one it needed. Now, I am sick every two years.

How many of you that are say oh...over 45-50 ever remember taking anti-biotics as a kid? I mean, how the heck did so many of us survive all the crap out there just by eating a healthy diet..oh, and getting OUTDOORS excercise..and, well, guess ya get the picture.