Human hand in creating superbugs...

[drjean]

from Reasons to Believe...

[FONT=Arial, Sans-Serif] The Human Hand in Creating Superbugs

By Dr. Fazale (Fuz) Rana
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[FONT=Arial, Sans-Serif] Superbugs are frightening and the latest news on this medical front isn’t good. Investigators from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered that two genes (dubbed NDM-1 and KPC) that confer resistance to carbapenems—one of the most powerful classes of antibiotics—readily transfer among Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae.1 These bacteria cause many hospital infections. Once they acquire resistance to carbapenems, there is no way to treat the infection.


According to Gautam Dantas, one of the researchers who made this discovery, “Carbapenems are one of our last resorts for treating bacterial infections, what we use when nothing else works…Given what we know now, I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that for certain types of infections, we may be looking at the start of the post-antibiotic era, a time when most of the antibiotics we rely on to treat bacterial infections are no longer effective.”2
Bacteria and other infectious agents cause us quite a bit of misery. Why would an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God create a world filled with bugs that can so readily evade our efforts to keep them in check?


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Dr. Fazale (Fuz) Rana

[FONT=Georgia, Serif]I became a Christian as a graduate student studying biochemistry. The cell's complexity, elegance, and sophistication coupled with the inadequacy of evolutionary scenarios to account for life's origin compelled me to conclude that life must stem from a Creator. Reading through the Sermon on the Mount convinced me that Jesus was who Christians claimed Him to be: Lord and Savior.
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[crjmurray]

 

[Loudmouth]

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Hmm . . .

You apply selective pressures with antibiotics, and the resistant bacteria become dominant in the population . . .

That would be a reason to accept evolution.

 

[Michael]

Medieval Anglo-Saxon recipe may kill MRSA superbug - CNN.com

Oddly enough the "cure" for resistant strains of MRSA are not match for 1000 year old technology.

I think if you're going to ask why bad things happen on Earth, you'd have to know the *intent* behind the process, and the *intent* of life on Earth. As far as I can tell, nothing on Earth is meant to be 'permanent' with respect to life forms, and most life forms experience some type of suffering in life.

 

[Loudmouth]

Medieval Anglo-Saxon recipe may kill MRSA superbug - CNN.com

Oddly enough the "cure" for resistant strains of MRSA are not match for 1000 year old technology.

It's a bit easier to kill bacteria with topical medications than ones you take internally. The chemicals in that old topical remedy probably wouldn't crossover into the bloodstream with any effectiveness.