Does any one know how the disease 'SuperBug' came to exist?

Question

I mean, a disease cant just be made right? for example, HIV came to exist because everyone was doing it and they didn't protect them selves. So, how did this one came to be? and what does it have that its not vulnerable to medicine? Was it made BY a medicine of some sort?

I'm just curious.

Answer 1

Certain strains of the following bacteria have developed antibiotics resistance.
Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Enterococcus faecium, Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus: GAS), Streptococcus pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella, Campylobacter Clostridium difficile and Escherichia coli.
The resurgence of the disease once eliminated (Eg: TB) is the development of drug resistant strains which now affect up to millions of people. These strains can be created by bad medical practice such as over-prescribing antibiotics or patients not taking the drugs long enough to get rid of the disease. Instead this encourages the bacteria to become tougher. The multi drug resistant strains are often fatal and have mortality rates that are comparable with those which existed before the development of antibiotics.

Answer 2

AIDS did not come to exist because people were having unprotected sex. That is part of the reason it became so widespread, but that doesn't explain where the disease came from in the first place.
In a sense, however, a disease *can* be just made. It happens when a virus undergoes a sudden, random mutation that enables it to slip past the body's defenses more easily. Even though previous versions of the virus may have been relatively harmless, the new mutation may be deadly.
"Superbug" does not really refer to a specific disease; usually it's the term used for a disease that was once easily treated by antibiotics, but has recently become resistant to most antibiotics and so is now very difficult to treat. Over-use or improper use of antibiotics is part of the reason for these superbugs.

Answer 3

The Superbug is a form of Staph bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics that are currently available. How this happens is when you use antibiotics to kill bacteria, eventually the bacteria will mutate to survive the antibiotic attack. Eventually you will get an antibiotic resistant bacteria after it has mutated after each type of antibiotic use until there are no more that will kill it. Then it becomes resistant to all antibiotics and you can't kill it hence the name Superbug. Staph is easily transmitted through shared towels and clothing, not keeping clean (which many high schoolers don't), and having open wounds. It can also form on mucus membranes such as in your mouth, nose, eyes, etc. So I guess you could say it was created by medicinal use and it was passed by unclean habits.

Answer 4

How do "superbugs" get to be super? I had the same question and found this article at--- http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Infectious-Disease-Ecology.htm This article describes Bacterial Ecology. Basically that means human overuse of antibiotics cleans out the bacterial world around us of weak strains of bacteria, and the stronger bacteria, who are like thugs, survive the antibiotics and are the only ones left around to reproduce with each other. It's like killing off all the ugly people and the beautiful people still left can more easily find other beautiful people to mate with--their kids have a better chance of coming even more beautiful than their parents. Therefore, when these thug bacteria begin to mate, they give each other their freak DNA strands and their children thug bacteria have a better chance of being even stronger and violent and unethical than their parents. Sounds funny but its true. Bacteria do exchange DNA between each other. This article describes how the kinds of generational thug bacteria and viruses surviving today now have such wierd DNA mixes that they can cross from animals to humans. This is where the bird flu is such a wierd thing. This article also describes how genetic engineering of medications is complicating finding a solution to this growing threat. So when you hear the media doctors saying "the bacteria are getting smarter", this is a very simplistic way of saying "stupid bacteria keep us safe, don't wipe out the stupid gene pool". There is no bacterial conspiracy, it's actually a human conspiracy to kill off all the weak bacteria and their ecologic pool of weak DNA. Lastly, taking antibiotics only makes your body "dumber" from naturally producing, on its own, necessary antibodies it needs--and that makes the body even weaker to a superbug, making it seem even more thuggish than it really is. Antibiotics are like still living at home with mama when you're 35.

Answer 5

"for example, HIV came to exist because everyone was doing it and they didn't protect them selves"

hahahaha - interesting!

Wikipedia describes superbugs as any microorganism that is resistant to antibiotics. Curious, since most organisms are resistant to some antibiotic or another... From the little I know on the subject, superbugs are thought to have 'become resistant' - I don't know if this means an increasing resistance through successive generations, or just through natural selection as wiki suggests.

Answer 6

" superbug" is a misnomer. MRSA, or methicillin resistant staph aureaus appeared several decades ago, primarily in hospital patients when they presented in a very ill state regardless of antibiotics they may have been taking. The reason the organism came into being was that a great many people were not completeing thier ordered antibiotics, when one doesn't complete an entire course as ordered, one leaves the infective bacteria resistant to the medication used, and eventually that bacteria becomes resistant to ALL antibiotics, much like MRSA, or VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococcus) So, even if you feel better, you simply MUST complete the full course of therapy, or you contribute to "super bugs" like MRSA.

Answer 7

We have been using antibitoics to often and resistant strains have multiplied. C dificile is a good example. Strong antibiotics kill off most of the normally occuring gut bacteria so the CD, which is resistant to antibiotics. takes over causing acute diarrhoea and death in older people and babies.

Answer 8

First, in regard to your statement on AIDS that the disease came from "everyone was doing it and they didn't protect themselves" is not true. Aids came from another insidious source. An American Corporation, Merck Corporation.

50,000 Monkeys were slaughtered in the 60s in order to make the Salk vaccine for polio. (James, p 124) Tens of thousands more had been killed since 1952, especially African green monkeys (Kyle), to provide kidneys on which to culture the vaccine. (PDR, 1998 p 2131) Looking at the statistics of polio during the past century (Figure 3), most researchers, including the developer himself, now feel the polio vaccine was unnecessary, because by 1954 the disease was obviously winding itself down throughout our species. But with HIV gaining strength some 25 years later, it is scary to look at a 1963 issue of Science Digest to find that in the 1950s a monkey virus named SV-40 was “unwittingly put into hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of doses of Salk vaccine.” (Snider) Curtis puts the number at “at least 10 million.” And where did this happen? Africa. (Curtis, p 1259) Great. Thanks a lot, guys. Thanks for bringing us the Black Plague of the 80s. (Kinison) Wonder why this little tidbit never made the newspapers . . . Horowitz explains that anyone who got polio vaccine prior to 1964 is at risk of carrying SV-40. (Emerging Viruses, p. 493). The above references are just a few from a whole area of research that provides a plausible, logical, scientific sequence of events to explain the rise of AIDS in the 1980s, commonly kept out of mainstream media. If all these doctors are finding evidence linking AIDS with polio shots, perhaps parents would do well to satisfy all suspicions by looking at these references before considering the “harmless” polio vaccination for their children, a vaccine which can give them much more than polio. Leaving the decision up to those who make their living selling vaccines did not work well for the 80,000 victims of Gulf War Syndrome, either.

The so called "super bug" is not super. The antibiotics given to people have caused the bugs to mutate into protecting themselves and consequently have created strains of bacteria that have become resistant to the body's natural immune system.

The medical industry in the U.S. follows the allopathic type of medicine, essentially started by Pasteur's logic. Pasteur felt that if you kill the bugs, you kill the disease. This is how the medical profession approaches disease today. "Let's find the magic pill that will kill all disease." Inject vaccines of dead disease cells to spur the body's immune system to develop immunity to a particular disease.

The body is really quite incredible. It knows more than the so called scientists and experts. It can discriminate between natural foods and synthetic products. Antibiotics were introduced in the last 50 years. They cause the body's white blood cells to become macrophages thereby increasing the number of disease eating cells the body already produces. The antibiotics do not do any killing themselves.

The body has a natural mechanism that has been given to us by God or Nature, however you view that issue, called friendly bacteria. The wisdom of the body is obvious here because these friendly bacteria kill the bad bacteria. When the body becomes deficient in these friendly bacteria, the bad take over. If you take an antibiotic, and I mean just one pill, you destroy the friendly bacteria. This is not what was intended to happen! Now the "super bug" is born because the body's own immune mechanism that is designed to kill bad bacteria has been compromised by the antibiotics and the body is totally reliant on the antibiotic to force the body to make and rely totally on the macrophages to do the killing. Additionally, the cooked foods we eat, as well as the preservatives, hormones, antibiotic laden meat and sprayed vegetables, combined with white flour, hydrogenation, refined sugars, bleached salt, have created a stomach acid deficiency. The stomach acid is designed to kill bacteria! Antacids are designed to stop stomach acid activity. Hmmm. I wonder if the $50 billion dollars the drug industry is making on these things each year would be better spent on making the very thing that will stop acid indigestion, stomach acid. It is the lack of stomach acid that causes LACTIC ACID to be formed that causes acid indigestion. Antacids have contributed greatly to this "super bug" phenomenon. Truly amazing to me what a little marketing and $50 billion dollars can do. Money doesn't talk, it screams!

Doctors do not study nutrition and the AMA forbids doctors from using nutrition to cure disease. If they do, they lose their license to practice.

Drugs, like antibiotics, are dependent upon the body's ability to generate the macrophages, but if the body has a weak immune system, forcing this action further depletes the body. It can win and it does work to an extent, but it leaves the body very vulnerable to further attack. Antibiotics also drive the disease deep into the tissue where it comes out 10 to 20 years later and wreaks havoc in the form of many diseases.

The answer to the "super bug" problem has been addressed fairly successfully in Canada by using probiotics. This action supports the body's normal way to deal with this rather than drugs.

Of course, you should be able to know what the next statement is, the doctors, hospitals, etc. in the U.S. have rejected this approach because it does not follow the AMA's guidelines on their approach to disease, so we now have "super bugs." Amazing.

To protect yourself, you need to build up your body and develop a strong immune system. The typical American diet will not do this. It has been designed by the largest industry in the world, the U.S. Food Industry, with profits exceeding ALL U.S. companies combined. Even the new food pyramid was a negotiating marvel that resulted in a ridiculous piece of art that does not promote health, but is a great example of Profit before Health.

When you look at cultures around the world that are healthier than Americans, it is no secrete why Americans are suffering the way they (we) are.

Super Bugs are only there because we have allowed them to exist.

good luck to you