Will it help with this?
Last year, WHO added that reports of gonorrhea treatment failure are stacking up. “In the past decade, confirmed failure to cure gonorrhoea with ceftriaxone alone or combined with azithromycin or doxycyline was reported in Australia, France, Japan, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” WHO reported.
This is not good…
multiresistant bacteria are fair game for this thread, right?
They looked at antibiotics with different mechanisms of action: some that worked by inhibiting DNA synthesis in the bacteria, others that worked by inhibiting protein synthesis, and others by inhibiting cell wall synthesis. They found that the antidepressants they tested induced resistance to multiple antibiotics—within a day.
That’s not encouraging. Requires further study, of course. But this is a route to acquisition of resistance i have never heard of, nor even considered, before. I am increasingly convinced I applied WDKS way too narrowly.
But we handled covid so very well! How can that be true?
Yup. We learned that doing absolutely nothing would have been much better than what we actually did. So guess what the plan is for the next one?
Hello, BSE. It’s been a while. Yeah, a lot’s happened. You’ll have to get in line.
Measles outbreak in central Ohio ends after 85 cases, all among children who weren’t fully vaccinated
This is interesting, although limited info so far
FDA Approves First Drug That Can Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes | FDA.
“Today’s approval of a first-in-class therapy adds an important new treatment option for certain at-risk patients,” said John Sharretts, M.D., director of the Division of Diabetes, Lipid Disorders, and Obesity in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “The drug’s potential to delay clinical diagnosis of type 1 diabetes may provide patients with months to years without the burdens of disease.”
Because we need some good news
One could almost interpret this as God sending a message. Yup, almost. If only they believed in such things…
