News:

Unnecessarily argumentative

Main Menu

Pollution With Antibiotics Leads to Resistant Bacteria

Started by Tank, February 21, 2011, 09:11:10 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Tank

February 21, 2011, 09:11:10 PM
Pollution With Antibiotics Leads to Resistant Bacteria, Scientists Find

QuoteScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2011) â€" Many of the substances in our most common medicines are manufactured in India. Some of these factories release huge quantities of drugs to the environment. Swedish scientists now show that bacteria in polluted rivers become resistant to a range of antibiotics. International experts fear that this may contribute to the development of untreatable infectious diseases worldwide...

Oh fucking joy!
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

ForTheLoveOfAll

#1
February 21, 2011, 11:23:33 PM
-Sighs-

Little things like this remind me why mother nature's remedies are still superior to modern medicine.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-Carl Sagan

I loved when Bush came out and said, "We are losing the war against drugs." You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
- Bill Hicks

LARA

#2
February 22, 2011, 03:52:16 PM
Great, if this is so, I can't say I'm surprised.  

And if that's not just effing marvelous, just think about the amount of antibiotics that are being poured into livestock in modern agricultural practices on a daily basis.  I think the Obama administration has been pursuing this problem in the states, don't know how good they are doing with it considering the lobbying powers here...but I hope they make progress as the future potential for a hamburger laden with antibiotic resistant E coli O157 is not going to make anyone's dinner experience a happy one.

This is why vaccines are so awesome.  You prime the immune system to fight by giving it a heads up, rather than poison the system with something toxic that will most likely be rendered ineffective in 50 to 100 years by natural selection.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
                                                                                                                    -Winston Smith, protagonist of 1984 by George Orwell
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions