Japan TV: Outbreak of antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma bacteria due to “mutation”

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Shirley/PA

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I'm a new memeber here. I hope I'm doing this right.

When I registered and in my biography, somehow I forgot to mention anyplace that I tract infectious diseases like a hawk.

TB and Ebola are big on my list of tracking.

Also, I've been following the March 11, 2011 Fukushima catastrophe and was really disturbed to find this link tonight:

"Japan TV: Outbreak of antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma bacteria due to “mutation”, especially in Fukushima, Gunma, Tochigi — 500 cases in a week (VIDEOS)"

http://enenews.com/report-outbreak-...n-fukushima-gunma-tochigi-500-cases-in-a-week

(Not sure how to get that HTML so you can automatically open it.)

I've never contemplated the mutation of diseases due to radiation. Not a happy thought though.
 
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Shirley/PA said:
I'm a new memeber here. I hope I'm doing this right.

When I registered and in my biography, somehow I forgot to mention anyplace that I tract infectious diseases like a hawk.

TB and Ebola are big on my list of tracking.

Also, I've been following the March 11, 2011 Fukushima catastrophe and was really disturbed to find this link tonight:

"Japan TV: Outbreak of antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma bacteria due to “mutation”, especially in Fukushima, Gunma, Tochigi — 500 cases in a week (VIDEOS)"

http://enenews.com/report-outbreak-...n-fukushima-gunma-tochigi-500-cases-in-a-week

(Not sure how to get that HTML so you can automatically open it.)

I've never contemplated the mutation of diseases due to radiation. Not a happy thought though.
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It doesn't take radiation to make super germs. One important fact to keep in mind is that by using antibiotics we are creating 'super' germs. If an antibiotic treatment regime does not kill 100% of the germs, those that survive have some degree of resistance. Most of the time treatment only knocks the germs back to where our bodies immune system can take over.

When people stop taking the antibiotics early, like many with TB, the germs rapidly become resistant or immune to antibiotics.

When Penicillin was introduced it was a true magic bullet, but within 5 years bacteria that could at first be eliminated started to display signs of resistance.

In a way it is very similar to insecticide. Unless all (100%) of the insects were killed, the survivors passed the immunity to their descendents.

In high school a classmate's science project showed how fruit flys developed immunity to DDT. The first generation would succumb to very weak concentrations of DDT, but the 100th generation would survive 100% DDT.

Scary

When one considers how much antibiotics are used in farms, it is no real surprise that really nasty bacteria are being found.
Then there is the fact that bacteria/viruses trade DNA/RNA.

Terry
 
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summerthyme

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YEah, the radiation is unlikely to change anything. Germs have a TWENTY MINUTE reproduction cycle!! They can change, adapt and mutate faster than almost anything on earth. And they've now discovered that they can "learn" resistance from other germs- even germs of other species!! It's nuts... and it's going to be a horrid disaster when we lose our antibiotics.

Summerthyme
 
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summerthyme said:
YEah, the radiation is unlikely to change anything. Germs have a TWENTY MINUTE reproduction cycle!! They can change, adapt and mutate faster than almost anything on earth. And they've now discovered that they can "learn" resistance from other germs- even germs of other species!! It's nuts... and it's going to be a horrid disaster when we lose our antibiotics.

Summerthyme
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I wasn't dismissing the possibility that radiation may have had some effect, it is just that 'germs' don't need radiation.
As you point out they 'learn' antibiotic resistance from other bacteria, even those of different species. Life was so much simpler back in 1975 when 'we' knew it all.

Terry
 
ShadowMan

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Radiation only increases the rate of mutation....and with Bacteria that is not a good thing for us humans.

As for the end of antibiotics, yes - we're in the final years of the to use antibiotics against disease. If you want to know what life will be like after antibiotics, just look at what people died from before the advent of penicillin. Not pretty.
 
Night Owl

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Our immune systems are screwed up with all the antibiotics doctors give out, we all are getting leaky gut syndrome and all different immune diseases we are not able to shake, not to mention all the sugar we eat causes inflammation making it easy to be open to all different kinds of diseases, viruses, cancers & bacterial infections.

I am sure that the radiation destroyed the thyroid of exposed Janpanse to radiation and thus if the thyroid doesn't work all havic happens in the bodies hormone system and inflammation
 
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