Over the entire course of my life I've heard the statement "If you don't need the drugs don't take them." Or Bleach and Alcohol only kill 99.9% of bacteria... Well what happens to that .01% of germs and bacteria that don't die? I'll tell ya, they become antibiotic resistant and/or resistant to germicides (bleach and alcohol). Anyways, this has been the case with penicillin and has lead to the creation of other antibiotics... Now, we are finding new strains of the flu, which are resistant to the next gen. antibiotics. So Dr. instead of selling the drugs that you make more money off of, or the pills that they show on tv, why not prescribe something that works? Or next time little Timmy gets a cold, tell him to drink allot of fluids and have some Jewish Penicillin (Chicken Noodle Soup)???
Anyways Tamiflu and Relenza, the two most popular flu medicines are starting to find their own resistances because so many people have been using them for so long. Apparently all this research being done by the Japanese simply proves empirically what we've been telling each other for years.
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SCARY!
ive also heard that if you are sick and are prescribed a antibiotic and miss a dose that the virus is able to change into a new virus that is now immune to the antibiotic. SO STAY UP ON YOUR MEDS DONT SKIP A DOSE!
I was watching a documentary about how some scientists were figuring out how to morph the strands of bird flu by mixing them with other kinds of flu to try and make them the type of flu that cannot be passed from bird to human. It was really very interesting and is still going to take some time before there are some sure fire ways to remedy the problem.
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