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04/08/19 11:23 PM

#306937 RE: BOREALIS #306889

Superbug was born on this board thanks to KILLER RASH BREAKS OUT ..
May 30, 2004 .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=3209587&txt2find=superbug , from easymoney101 ..
who, umm, hasn't posted since noon, Mar. 3, 2017 .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/profile.aspx?user=16815 .. 2017.

She was very prominent on the board in 2004. If anyone has any later news of, easymoney101, it would be much appreciated.

The surprising history of the war on superbugs — and what it means for the world today

By Carl Zimmer September 12, 2016


Selman Abraham Waksman, left, discoverer of streptomycin and neomycin, and Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, examine cultures at Rutgers University in 1949.
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“We may come to the end of antibiotics. We may run clean out of effective ammunition, and then how the bacteria and moulds will lord it.”

If you had to guess where those words came from, you might well say a recent news segment on TV, or perhaps an op-ed published by a frantic doctor. After all, these days there’s a lot of talk about our antibiotic resistance crisis. Bacteria that have evolved to withstand antibiotics kill 700,000 people each year, and ever more powerful strains are spreading around the world. Researchers are worried that we will enter a post-antibiotic age, in which we are infected by bacteria that can defeat every drug medicine has to offer. Next week, the United Nations will convene a high-level meeting to coordinate the global fight against these invisible enemies.

But perhaps you noticed something odd about those words above. They have a strangely old-fashioned sound. In fact, they were uttered back in 1954, by a British physician named Lindsey W. Batten.

Although mostly forgotten today, Batten and other like-minded scientists were warning of a coming antibiotic crisis over 60 years ago.

More with links .. https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/superbug-antibiotic-resistance-history/







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