[TheForge] top of food chain ( was Re: (no subject) OT )

[peter fels]

Between the misuse, competition, the liabilities and the cost of getting new antibiotics approved ( $900 million if successful or not);
Drug companies have little motivation to develop new antibiotics to replace the ones that are taken out by cultured reistance.


On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:41 PM, blakkpawss at yahoo.com wrote:

> Yes, it's true, missapplication of antibiotics is causing it.  But, we are only speeding up what was a natural and inevitable process.  I know that doesn't make what we are doing any better.  But, I also know that it would happen one way or another.  Like the dinosaurs before us, we either adapt quickly or we die and something better suited takes our place.  Filling our niche and thriving to overabundance.  I don't worry about it.  Even after several bouts in one year with staph and MRSA.  I'm still alive.  Still fighting abd kicking.  I go on till I can't.  Can't worry too much what will happen when I'm gone, since I won't be here anymore.
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] top of food chain ( was Re:  (no subject) OT )
> 
> hello peter;
> 
> it is exactly our misapplication of antibiotics that has given the world
> and humanity an example of darwin's theory of evolution in full-blown
> reality ( and yes i do know that reality does suck. ) . classic case of
> survival of the fit. the bugs which survive the onslaught of antibiotics
> are the strongest one and should survive according to darwin. this leads
> to humanity being its own worst enemy. it is the misapplication of
> antibiotics which has created the very element of our future demise.
> 
> the world would be a nice if it was not for the humans.
> 
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, peter fels wrote:
> 
>> Hi Terry:
>> Like gravity; the microbes always win in the end.
>> Given the fast generational turnover, mutation rates, and genetic material swapping,
>> They hardly need any help from Fort Dettrick.
>> Almost all of what bio-science can do , has been done by Ma nature long ago.
>> The MRSA bugs, for example,  did it without our assistance
>> ( If you ignore our stupid misapplication of antibiotics).
>> 
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