Are the *SUPERBUGS* today, tomorrow's BLACK PLAGUE?

Question

MRSA and other deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria are no longer confined to hospitals – the terrifying truth is, they are everywhere
FROM NEW SCIENTIST
10-year-old boy living in Louisiana developed a cough, earache and fever. By the next day his fever had risen and his breathing had deteriorated and he was taken to hospital. Less than 48 hours later, he died from pneumonia.

Three weeks after, a 14-year-old boy, also from Louisiana, was taken to hospital with flu symptoms. Two days later his breathing problems got worse and he died from severe pneumonia.

children were among six in Louisiana and Georgia to have died from pneumonia last winter for the same reason. The illness that claimed their lives was caused by the "hospital superbug" MRSA, aka methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Swedish superbug worries doctors
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A rapidly spreading bacterium that is resistant to common antibiotics is worrying doctors in Sweden.

Answer 1

Yes. I have heard experts say the bugs we hear of now are class 1 diseases. There are supposed to be Class 3 and 4 out there.

In R&S terms, the Bible shows humans were designed to be immune to those things. We were meant to live forever. Our father, Adam, messed it up for everybody.

God will not let this go on for much longer. Soon, He will bring things back to perfect standards.

Answer 2

Fundamentalist christians shouldn't worry because according to their logic superbugs do not exist as they cannot evolve.

As for the rest of us, MRSA, C-dificile and all the rest are unlikely to ever reach Black Death or Great Plague standards (not "Black Plague" - it's a blurring of two events separated by over 300 years) because they're not spread by rats' fleas or any other intermediary.

What hospitals, patients and visitors need to re-learn is the basic cleanliness that we once relied upon before antibiotics were discovered.

Answer 3

There is a decent chance at a plague hitting the population pretty hard in the near future. But that has always been true. Evolution tends to select for survival and being able to resist antibiotics is their way of surviving.

Fortunately, medicine moves pretty fast on bacterial infections and can usually find a way to vaccinate for them pretty quickly and keep it limited. Its the viral ones (like HIV) you have to worry about.

Answer 4

You're a nurse, so I assume you've studied some epidemiology. It's my understanding that the efficient "superbugs" kill too fast to spread as rapidly as the black plague. Am I wrong about this?

Answer 5

I concur with Girl Wonder, please provide your sources for your story.

Also, who knows what the next mega-disease that humans will encounter. It might be a strain of the flu. It might be some germ that has been encountered before but killed its host before they could get to a populated area. However, the next time the person makes it to a populated area where it can spread. It might be something that we have never encountered before.

Answer 6

That is entirely possible. That's why we need to stop promoting the superbugs with all our anti-bacterials, anti-septics, and anti-biotics, unless absolutely necessary.

That's a wonderful example of evolution at work.

Answer 7

Looking forward to the weekend <3

Answer 8

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an airplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.

Answer 9

Ok, you're not even trying to disguise this as somehow religious related anymore. This is just doom and gloom spreading.

Also, sources are needed.

Answer 10

They're evidence of evolution, I can tell you that much.