Superbug Concern – Why Is Some Science Ignored?
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March 5, 2010It has been known for some years that potentially fatal superbugs resistant to all antibiotics are increasing. A reader has put us on to a December ’09 article in ‘Daily Health’, an e-letter published by the UK Health Sciences Institute, who report on advances in ‘modern, underground medicine’. The article states that:
“The survey of intensive care doctors, published in the infectious disease journal Eurosurveillance, found that half treated at least one patient with an infection that was totally resistant or almost totally resistant to antibiotics during the past six months.
One in five had seen more than three patients and some had seen more than ten patients with the superbugs.
As we’ve noted many times before in this e-letter, the true scale of antibiotic resistant infections in Britain is unknown because reporting of most types is voluntary. Only cases of MRSA and Clostridium difficile must be reported to officials.
But the report said other bacteria including E.coli and bugs that cause pneumonia – and which are no less deadly than MRSA and C.Difficile – are increasingly becoming resistant to drugs, too…”
One Method That Kills 99.9% Of Superbugs – including flu bugs
Daily Health cites the work by Dane Niels Finsen in the 1890s, that showed that light had the ability to kill bacteria.
Niels argued that it was light, acting slowly and weakly, rather than heat that was effective and devised various filters and lenses to separate and concentrate the different components of sunlight. He found that it was the short ultraviolet rays, either natural or artificial, that turned out to have the greatest bactericidal power.
He found phototherapy to be very useful against lupus vulgaris, a skin infection produced by the tubercle bacillus and he claimed that on exposure to ultraviolet rays the skin regained its normal color and the ulcerations began to heal. For this work Niels Finsen received the third Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1903.
Question
Why isn’t Niels Finsen’s discovery used today in every hospital in our battle against ‘super’ strains of bacteria and viruses, such as MRSA, C.Difficile and E.Coli?
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4 Comments
Mainly because antibiotics helped us learn more about our health and our body. Doctors believe scientists will soon invent a new antibiotics and so are relectunt to accept their days as “Savers of life” are almost over. I may sound negative but the reality is its true.
People are made to believe that healthcare professionals will tell you why and how the infection occurred but they won’t because you may claim compensation. Hospitals have a lot to loose and surgeons won’t be able to survive without antibiotics.
These bacteria are more powerful than you can imagine because they are surviving in large numbers in the sea water and sunlight is not a threat to them. The evidence we have is all based on past studies when these bugs were not resistant to treatment.
Now we have an unknown, unwanted guest forcing itself on us “A War We Will Never Win”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4L6NsWHLpE
We have been trying to introduce this technology which has been scaled to provide complete building UV protection for staff & patients but the NHS are just not interested.
Hi Hillary, Have you received any feedback as to WHY the NHS isn’t interested?
This is terrifying news to someone with no medical education. Will Dr Srivatsa be punished by the powers-that-be for giving this
appraisal of our dire situation? Does the general media show any interest in the topic?