Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to release antibiotics (h...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/5913940
Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to release antibiotics
#antibiotics #crawl #mouse #release #robots #stomach #through #tiny
#Superbugs a major threat to hospital patients - CBS News
▻http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-superbugs-a-major-threat-to-hospital-patients
The CDC reports that at any given time in the U.S. 1 in 25 patients has at least one healthcare-acquired infection (or HAI). An estimated 722,000 healthcare-acquired infections occurred in 2011, and about 75,000 of these patients died.
According to the new CDC report, 1 in 7 catheter and surgery-related infections are caused by any of six antibiotic-resistant superbugs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and “nightmare bacteria” carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
In long-term acute care hospitals that treat very sick patients, number jumps to 1 in 4.
“#Antibiotic_resistance threatens to return us to a time when a simple infection can kill,” Frieden said in a press conference today.
The rise of antibiotic resistance rekindles interest in phage therapy
▻http://www.nature.com/news/phage-therapy-gets-revitalized-1.15348 #antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance - #WHO 2014 global report:
▻http://www.who.int/drugresistance/documents/surveillancereport/en #antibiotics #health
“A post-antibiotic era – in which common infections and minor injuries can kill – far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st Century”
WHO report: #Antibiotic #resistance happening right now all over the world - The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/who-report-antibiotic-resistance-happening-right-now-all-over-the-wor
Antibiotic resistance, which can lead to minor injuries and common post-operative infections becoming fatal, is no longer a prediction for the future but is happening “right now”, the World Health Organisation has said.
In a stark report, global health officials said that antibiotic resistance, the process whereby bacteria evolve to resist the drugs we use to combat them, “threatens the achievements of modern medicine” and will have “devastating” consequences unless “every country and individual” in the world takes action to prevent its further spread.
article en français + lien sur le rapport
L’OMS est pessimiste devant les résistances aux antibiotiques
▻http://www.futura-sciences.com/magazines/sante/infos/actu/d/medecine-oms-pessimiste-devant-resistances-antibiotiques-53569
La liste des antibiotiques pour lesquels les microbes ont développé des résistances est longue. « Exposés à des bactéries comme Staphylococcus aureus (le staphylocoque doré), les patients sont malades plus longtemps et ont plus de risque de décéder », poursuit l’OMS. « À moins que les nombreux acteurs concernés agissent d’urgence et de manière coordonnée, le monde s’achemine vers une ère postantibiotique, estime Keiji Fukuda, sous-directeur général de l’OMS pour la sécurité sanitaire. Des infections courantes et des blessures mineures qui sont soignées depuis des décennies pourraient à nouveau tuer. »
Rapport OMS ▻https://destinationsante.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/rapport-OMS-antimicrobialresistance.pdf [en]
When we lose #antibiotics, here’s everything else we’ll lose too:
▻http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/end-abx #health
Hitting The ’Off’ Switch On Antibiotic Resistance : NPR
►http://www.npr.org/2011/12/02/143055120/hitting-the-off-switch-on-antibiotic-resistance
Doctors are running out of effective antibiotics, as bacteria evolve ways to evade one drug after another. Now DARPA has called for alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Nanotechnologist Chad Mirkin discusses one such weapon—tiny globs of DNA and RNA that can switch off the bugs’ #antibiotic #resistance. Nanotechnologist Chad Mirkin discusses next-generation antibiotics that target a bacterium’s DNA.
80% des antibiotiques consommés aux Etats-Unis le sont dans des usines à #viande
What the #USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About #Antibiotics and Factory Farms | Mother Jones
►http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/07/what-usda-doesnt-want-you-know-about-antibiotics-and-factory-farms
le ministère de l’agriculture US #censure un rapport (une revue d’articles) d’une de ses chercheuses, qui montre un lien entre l’usage important des antibiotiques dans l’agriculture et l’#épidémie de staph doré résistant aux antibios… au passage ce chiffre : 80% des antibiotiques consommés aux Etats-Unis le sont dans des usines à #viande !
Why is the USDA suppressing a review that assembles research from “reputed, scientific, peer-reviewed, and scholarly journals”?
(...) Altogether, the US meat industry uses 29 million pounds of antibiotics every year. To put that number in perspective, consider that we humans in the United States—in all of our prescription fill-ups and hospital stays combined—use just over 7 million pounds per year. Thus the vast bulk of antibiotics consumed in this country, some 80 percent, goes to factory animal farms.
For years, scientists have worried that the industry’s reliance on antibiotics was contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. The European Union took action to curtail routine antibiotic use on farms in 2006 (taking Sweden’s lead, which had banned the practice 20 years before).
But here in the United States, the regulatory approach has been completely laissez-faire