http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/health/policy/fda-restricts-use-of-antibiotics-in-livestock.xml

It's a start.

1/6/2012 12:09:51 PM

xml? really?

1/6/2012 12:18:17 PM

Pasted from mobile. Looks normal on Android.

1/6/2012 12:34:27 PM

great. doesn't work for me in IE. does work in chrome, lol

1/6/2012 12:39:02 PM

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"It's a start."

agreed, its a pretty small first step according to some:

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/fda-takes-baby-step-factory-farm-antibiotics

The one that was banned was already being phased out by the industry

1/6/2012 12:39:45 PM

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"Cephalosporins are not used as widely in livestock as penicillin, since they require a prescription from veterinarians. But the drugs are routinely injected into broiler eggs and used in large doses to treat infections in cattle and other animals."

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"BORN ON DRUGS"

1/6/2012 1:52:13 PM

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/antibiotic-failure-will-cost-1o-million-lives-annualy-2050

UK government report estimates that:

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"If present trends continue, antibiotic failure will claim 10 million lives per year by 2050, the report concludes. That's more carnage than what's currently caused by cancer and traffic accidents combined. The economic toll will also be mind-boggling. By 2050, the report estimates, antibiotic resistance will be incurring $8 trillion in annual expenses globally. That's equal to nearly half of the total output of the US economy in 2014—an enormous hemorrhaging of global resources."

If the reality is even half that, its mind-boggling.

1/6/2015 8:43:21 AM

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"doesn't work for me in IE. does work in chrome"

Doesn't sound like a problem with the OP

1/6/2015 9:39:07 AM

^^seems like an odd way to spin those numbers. Antibiotics prevent millions of deaths a year. If they prevent fewer deaths in the future they're still preventing deaths.

1/6/2015 12:18:27 PM

The point is, with a more judicious use of antibiotics, we can slow the rate of antibiotic failure, thus possibly saving millions of lives in the medium to long-term future.

1/6/2015 1:34:54 PM

We are so fucked

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12004008/E.coli-has-developed-resistance-to-last-line-of-antibiotics-warn-scientists.html

11/19/2015 6:11:50 PM

^^^ the point is that we should be more aggressively pursuing mechanisms that are more robust than antibiotics.

And there's a difference between using antibiotics because it lets you cut corners on procedures, and using antibiotics because they're necessary.

11/19/2015 6:30:40 PM

yet again, a stupid government agency is imposing totalitarian restrictions to deny hard working americans a chance to earn profit.

11/20/2015 9:59:46 AM

This just helps motivate us to make more better antibiotics. What time frame do you expect to be reasonable for an Antibiotic?

Humans aren't steady state, nor is society, nor are the bugs that are currently killing us. 2050 is a very long time away. Technology growth as of late has been more exponential rather than linear. Such dire predictions will likely be terrible inaccurate and overblown just as predictions in 1980 about 2015 are far from reality. I would argue that due to the exponential growth of technology predictions over that 30-50 year time span get less accurate over time rather than more accurate.

I.E. predicting 50 years in 1700 was pretty accurate, heck up until 1850 you could reasonably predict what the future would look for an average person 50 years down the road... I think its pretty apparent that as time progresses that accuracy has dropped more and more.

11/25/2015 3:38:11 PM

https://youtu.be/TZb0avfQme8

11/25/2015 9:02:31 PM

we'll have gmo viral antibiotics and nanotechnology bacteriaphages by 2050.

11/26/2015 1:13:27 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/?postshare=3471464289168129&tid=ss_tw

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" “It basically shows us that the end of the road isn’t very far away for antibiotics — that we may be in a situation where we have patients in our intensive-care units, or patients getting urinary tract infections for which we do not have antibiotics,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said in an interview Thursday."

FYI this the same exact gene mutation/resistance that the article I posted above is about. It jumped from China to the US in less than a year.

We are so epically fucked.

5/27/2016 6:16:14 AM

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-nightmare-superbug-has-not-heralded-the-apocalypse-yet/

Ok, better article.

We still fucked tho

5/27/2016 8:30:26 AM

Necessity being the mother of invention I assume (hope) that we will come up with a solution. Might do some serious damage first though. After seeing my mom deal with a pretty resistant infection and then my daughter get MRSA this scares the shit out of me.

5/27/2016 11:30:38 AM

I remember reading something a while back about how before antibiotics were discovered, there was research into engineering bacteriophage to target and kill specific bacteria.

5/29/2016 1:52:53 PM