Drug-Resistant Infections is the new end of the world fad

Thestar.com- Imagine a world where knee surgery is a potentially life-threatening procedure and you will begin to understand the “apocalyptic scenario” described by Britain’s chief medical officer.

On Wednesday, Dame Sally Davies warned a U.K. parliamentary committee about the dangers of antibiotic drug resistance, a threat so dire she wants it added to Britain’s register of civil emergencies — alongside other dangers such as terrorist threats, pandemic influenza and natural disasters.

“The apocalyptic scenario is that when I need a new hip in 20 years, I’ll die of a routine infection because we’ve run out of antibiotics,” Davies said. “It’s very serious because we are not using our antibiotics effectively in countries.

 And earlier this month, the World Economic Forum included antibiotic drug resistance in its Global Risks 2013 report, calling it “arguably the greatest risk of hubris to human health.”

Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, puts it much more starkly: “A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.”

So now the world is grappling with emerging diseases such as drug-resistant gonorrhea, extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, and superbugs that cause unnecessary deaths from hospital-acquired infections.

“The most effective way of not using antibiotics is to not have the infection in the first place,” McGeer said.

It's always something. We can never just chill out for a minute. I mean didn't we just survive the 2012 apocalypse like 2 seconds ago? There's always gotta be something newer, something scarier, something more scientific. Well fuck that. How long have we been hearing Global Warming is gonna kill us all? Remember Y2K? Granted this sounds way more real and way more possible, but its kinda like the boy who cried wolf situation here. I'm just numb to all these apocalypse theories always in my face. Who know's, maybe one day the world is gonna end because of a violent medicine-resistant gonorrhea outbreak, but until then color me unimpressed.

PS- Hey "McGeer", no shit we shouldn't have gotten the infection in the first place. That's why its an infection. McGeer, more like McSquid.