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Every year, the media scare readers with a new disease: HIV, swine flu, Ebola. However, medical scientists say that is truly a mortal danger to humanity they are not terrible epidemics, but infections that today nobody takes seriously. But very soon in medical In conclusions, the cause of death will indicate a sore throat and a runny nose.
Infection worse than plague and cholera
Today it’s hard for us to imagine that once sick for man meant to die. Plague, cholera, smallpox have not mowed countries worse than world wars. However, a much larger harvest was collected by simple infections. People were dying of nose and throat diseases. Inflammation lungs killed every third. Any wound in battle could become fatal – more than half of the wounded died from infection. TO a simple cut or even a scratch could have led to death – Mayakovsky’s father died with a rusty paper clip.
Penicillin was discovered in the 20s of the XX century, and in the 40s its industrial production began. It was really coup in the life of mankind. Fear of panic a disease. One had only to feel unwell to take the pill, take the powder, make an injection – and the disease disappeared as unpleasant sleep.
Medicines Against Bacteria: A Race To Advance
The discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, warned of trap hidden in antibiotics. Wrong dosing will kill weak bacteria, but survivors will produce offspring resistant to to the drug. For treatment, you need double, triple loading doses. Microorganisms produce tens of thousands of generations and bacteria that are completely immune to drugs will appear.
The predictions of the medical prophet began to come true very quickly. Almost immediately after the appearance of penicillin, resistant to him staphylococcus. Penicillin was replaced by tetracycline, it was replaced erythromycin. The list of drugs was rapidly replenished: levofloxacin, methicillin, daptomycin, linezolid, etc. Some held on for a year or two, and some gave up in a few months. The race of pharmacology against infection was gaining speed, and man in it began to lag.
Died a few years ago in a new york hospital postoperative patient. He was killed by an infection against which medications were powerless. More and more sick undergoing an intensive course of drug therapy, become carriers of antibiotic-resistant infections. Some doctors beat anxiety and require urgent action up to the isolation of these sick. Doctors consider them to be the purest to release them into society. suicide is like releasing a plague in medieval town. However, humanity to such radical measures of salvation so far not ready yet.
Man is his own grave digger
Partly the man himself is to blame for the situation. Thoughtlessly using drugs at the slightest ailment, it contributes the early appearance of their future gravediggers. To accustom people it’s very difficult to take drugs in dosage, but this is not a problem decides. We do not consume the lion’s share of antibiotics noticing.
Most of humanity is meat-eaters. To satisfy the desire of millions of people to eat a meatball or steak throughout the planet scattered hundreds of thousands of cattle, marine and poultry farms. All of their inhabitants – chickens, pigs, cows, fish and crustaceans each day consume antibiotics in unimaginable doses – these are stimulants growth, and preventive measures to protect the herd from mass case.
With every piece of meat, even a 100% healthy person is absolutely huge doses of antibiotics unnecessary to him and prepares himself as a sacrifice drug-resistant infection. Antibiotic designed to save humanity will cause his death.
Grim prospects
Scientists and environmentalists have been fighting since the 70s of the last century, so that if not to prohibit, so at least limit feeding to the inhabitants “meat factories” medicinal feed additives. However, in pursuit of profit and livestock companies, and individual farmers in every possible way resist the slightest attempt to limit application antibiotics.
Doctors say that when a person finally loses a race, the current health care system will have to be forgotten. Operations will again become deadly. Every 6th will die operated patient. Each injection will turn into a game of the patient with death. People will only accept organ implants. when death will already look into their eyes.
Is there a way out of this situation in which a man drove himself myself? Scientists honestly answer: “We don’t know. We are looking.”
Posted by Klim Podkova
