Superbug, contagious gene

[inga]

Well, this is an interesting find....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_he_me/us_med_superbug_gene

[inga]

Here is more if that one wasn't enough....and of course, it is on my medical source, CNBC, lol, where else?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38677723/Warning_to_Travelers_About_New_Drug_Resistant_Superbug

[navydad]

Think ill book a trip to India

[inga]

You probably already survived it.

[Joe S.]

I agree Inga. Navydad would most likely contract the bug and survive but at a higher pain level with more dysfunction.

Now here is an idea, "He could bring it back and pass it on to the bad doctors".

[inga]

I was being  kindly sarcastic.

IT isn't a GERM....it is any gram negative bacteria can catch this DNA and incorporate it into its genome and confer it to all offspring.  It is a NEW PROCESS.

This exposed ALL gram negative organisms to becoming antibiotic resistance, since it is THEM that 'catches' the DNA, not you.

Of course, people shed organisms way before they are sick, and it is caught as a germ...or....alternatively....

You could get the plamsid and have it make an ordinarily susceptible gram negative organism become resistant inside you....which is a bummer too.  OR you can just catch a gram negative organism.

At this point, I don't know if gram positive organisms will ever be affected, but it seems to me, if it works for one, the same pathway could develop for another kind.

[sleeeepy]

Hello, not to be political AT ALL just thinking that although we all figured that the"Superbug" was coming eventually, I feel that it is too early for this to happen.  Makes me think that it MAY have been genetically lab created???  Just a thought but many scientists have mysteriously disappeared over the years nowhere to be found. Especially given the location where this "Supergene" has started.

You would think the superbug we were expecting would be a simpler bacterium and not a Gene.  Just something to think about.

Take care....Mary

[navydad]

You probably already survived it.

:-),, I probably did,, I wonder why I felt so close to the light for a while

[navydad]

I was being  kindly sarcastic.

IT isn't a GERM....it is any gram negative bacteria can catch this DNA and incorporate it into its genome and confer it to all offspring.  It is a NEW PROCESS.

This exposed ALL gram negative organisms to becoming antibiotic resistance, since it is THEM that 'catches' the DNA, not you.

Of course, people shed organisms way before they are sick, and it is caught as a germ...or....alternatively....

You could get the plamsid and have it make an ordinarily susceptible gram negative organism become resistant inside you....which is a bummer too.  OR you can just catch a gram negative organism.

At this point, I don't know if gram positive organisms will ever be affected, but it seems to me, if it works for one, the same pathway could develop for another kind.

Duhhhh,, say what?,,,

[bloodless]

wowsers

[inga]

With the imprudent use of antibiotics, we don't need politics to create this mess.

I won't be around for a while....having a medical procedure done and wont have the use of a hand...kinda makes typing hard...

I will try to read, but, I won't be typing....navydad, try to stay outta trouble while I am gone!

I leave you all to peace and quiet...sorry, I can't explain the plasmid thing, right now, but some one likely will.  (It's just a hunk of DNA).....I am off to bed!