[cyclelops]

When you are having surgery and a relative says, 'Good luck with that'....it leaves one to ponder....I hope more than luck is involved in outcome!!

Geez....I dunno, I know it was all meant well, but, the things we say sometimes!

[cyclelops]

I NEED to stop reading.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/..._superbug_gene

WTH is this??!! A contagious GENE....spreads hand to mouth....cripes.

Do you want MRSA with that burger??

After this, I swear I will NEVER leave the farm.....ya think?

[mrsD]

This is not MrsA that I can tell from the press releases.

It appears to be another one...and has a new name. But details are lacking.

Using antibiotics heavily is always a risky business. This one seems very spooky IMO.

[cyclelops]

No this isn't MRSA....It isn't an organism...it isn't alive...how do you kill a plasmid?

The gene segment confers resistance to ALL but 2 highly toxic antibx.....(thus far, tigecycline and colistin). The gene segment is transferred from human to human the way any DNA is...think crime scene. It spreads from organism to organism...any kind of bacteria, fairly readily....from what they say....so it is the template for antibiotic resistance, to any germ we have already subdued....and can we say TB??? Ugh....

It is a gene....plasmid....way worse potential than MRSA..the deeper I dig on this one, the more upsetting this one is....of course, it looks like GSK has a patent number for some kind of compound that may slow the reproduction of resistant bacteria....I hopt this didn't crawl out of a petri dish somewhere. (Altho it is Darwinism at its best).

I hope we have not bitten too much fruit off the tree of knowledge. I have to go wash the chicken poo off my shoe.

[cyclelops]

Other than yahoo....cnbc has a story. cnbc...where else. Does one every doubt the interplay?

Oh, and I love the search for NDM-1 symptoms...symptoms??? Any symptom of any bacteria illness!

Swill....I tell you....swill is never a good thing...anywhere.

Ok, no panic here...nope....while we were busy with H1N1, THIS was stewing in the soup! Well, now I am more convinced that my surgery will result in my demise....I thought MRSA maybe, but this!?

Take your household bacteria and just supercharge it with this DNA. The perfect storm.

My next question....does it survive IVIG prep?

[cyclelops]

My answer to myself....'probably'.

[mrsD]

This new mutant is coming from India.

Perhaps India has not reached your Northern Midwest area yet?

But if you do get that hand surgery, I would seriously do the Vit C to prevent RSD... Also keep your skin clean before the surgery...ultra clean.

I used to see the most horrific results from knee work... people with contaminated surgical fields, and long term destruction of the joint. So this is not a new concern, yet. But in a couple of years, we will see what this Indian mutation can produce here.

People go to India and other countries to have surgeries which cost much less than here. It is becoming more common every day.

Thanks for posting this. But I don't see it impacting you YET.. wait around for 2 or 3 yrs, and that may change, however!

[cyclelops]

One month old.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197616.php

Sept. 7

http://wireupdate.com/wires/9498/jap...tant-superbug/

58 cases in Japan, 32 mortality, 9 confirmed NDM-1


OK, so how wierd is it for a doc to be on medscape video.. 5 days ago.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/728039

This same article is everywhere....same canned presentation.

http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/...ound-3-states/

Another article...

http://news.ph.msn.com/top-stories/a...mentid=4331263

Ok not to belabor the point, but this here and to think that it the DNA plasmid remains in Pakistan or India is absurd. I believe all US cases have a link to Asia so far.....that won't last long.

It is amazing how little REAL news we get.

[cyclelops]

I still am more likely to get a run of the mill or MRSA than this...but, this is coming....ugh.

I am also more likely to die of a drug interaction....frankly, I do think my chances are good....but, I do not understand why WHO and CDC ignores globalization the way they do. We are NOT ready for this development.

Some one said this would render us pre-antibiotic era. I disagree...it is pre-antibiotic era with instant global travel.

[cyclelops]

Note my mood change......harrumph.