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It's very possible, yichel that we may be creating our own artificial bottleneck of newly created virulent pathogens for which we have no immunity. Take for example the H1H5 avian flu virus. How did that come about? Because of the unhealthy practices of farmers in southeast Asia with respect to their poultry. In many cases the people in this area would eat sick chickens. In other instances, the virus was transmitted by individuals participating on cock fights and licking the blood off of their wounded poultry.

Certainly the overuse of antibiotics has created many resistant strains of bacteria. There is a strain of tuberculosis that has become immune to all antibiotics accept for one very powerful antibiotic which has to be administered intravenously.

'Homo sapien' translated into English from Latin means 'wise man'. I sometimes doubt the wisdom of that label of our species.

Last April I had a very bad case of MRSA a "Super Bug". Antibiotic resistant bacteria that have mutated and are now no longer killed by our antibiotics. I know these have been created by the over use of antibiotics. The doses given kill the weaker bacteria and those left because they are more resistant live and pass their resistance. This also happens when people take an antibiotic and when they begin to feel better they do not finish the entire amount prescribed. They feel better because they have killed most of the bacteria but the most resistance bacteria are still alive.

Seventy percent of all the antibiotics made in this country are being used for livestock. What we are creating are resistant bacteria that may someday cause illness that we do not have a weapon against. The 21st century plague.

From a co-worker of mine, I know that mothers may be only too willing to demand that doctors prescribe antibiotics for their children for the simplest sniffles, even if it's viral and not affected by antibiotics. I dread having to stay at a hospital. A 60-Minutes spot showed a boy being adequately treated once for dengue fever until a resistant side infection fatally stopped the progress. Throughout the world, peoples use the marvels of chemistry and over-apply them as a quick cure-all. In Africa, a quickly available substance for a different purpose is being used to poison troublesome rogue lions and has nearly wiped out whole prides from their whole country. Yet the genie is already out of the bottle, be it pathogens or residual chemicals.

MRSA thought that was the drug resistant tuberculousis i hope i am very wrong. I had pnemonia for a week they drained some junk out of me but gave be an anti bacteria i now moo.