Is MRSA Really Your Worst Enemy?
It is impossible to run from bacteria, much less hide! For this reason, the human family hasn't had it good against bacteria for a very long time. If it hadn't been for providence, luck or the grace of God we'd still be dropping dead in droves from common infections.
Modern antibiotics have been around for a relatively short time in human history. The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming occurred in 1928; he observed a mold which had grown by chance on a staphylococcus culture. The mold had surprisingly constructed a bacteria free zone around itself. The Scottish born researcher had stumbled upon a substance which would lengthen countless lives, especially after mass-production was refined during World War II. By the time the human devastation of D-Day was happening, thousands were being saved from once deadly gangrene with penicillin. Deadly and frightening diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis and syphilis became curable and surgery became a safe endeavor. To hear of someone today, dying of bacterial pneumonia would be shocking to us; but, it is happening. It is now widely known that once treatable diseases are becoming resistant to the miracle drugs of the past.
Antibiotic resistance first began to emerge not long after the drugs were put into wide use. It was in the 1950s that a form of staphylococcus know as S Aureus 80/81 was discovered in hospital maternity wards all over the world. Attempts were made to limit the use of antibiotics as researchers began to realize that bacteria had the ability to evolve immunity to antibiotics.
So what can we expect? Until a new silver bullet is discovered to fight the "superbugs", once thought of as eradicated afflictions will kill healthy people. Sadly, the recent death of a healthy 17 year old Virginia boy has slapped us in the face with that truth. We will see things like c. difficile, pneumonia and staph take people down in droves as they once did before the era of antibiotics was born.
A story ran recently on CNN that MRSA had been discovered in other Virginia schools. Well of course it had! No matter how many times schools are cleaned, hospitals are sanitized or hands are washed the bugs will survive. They will continue to fight for survival by acquiring resistance to any new drug that emerges and hide from our feeble attempts to flush them out with anti-bacterial soaps, bleach based cleaners or alcohol hand scrubs. Bacteria survive in the most hostile of earthly environments and they may well survive us.
In bygone days our leaders once comforted us with phrases like, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; yet today the newscasts we watch and the political pronouncements we hear are seething with hopelessness and chastising warnings that our imminent death is coming sooner than we think unless we take the recommended precautions. If you think that you can run from MRSA, forget it. So what must you do? Stand and fight! Fight bravely each and every day and never give up hope that peace is available to you. Fear really is your worst enemy and to spend your precious and limited time on this earth being frightened of bacteria is an insult to your soul, the ultimate in vanity, perhaps downright blasphemy.
Face your fear; distraction is no true escape. You won't stop panicking while watching a America's Funniest Home Videos, especially if you don't flip during the commercials. Look at your fear through a microscope and try to understand what your fear really represents. To know your enemy intimately is to know how to destroy him whether he is MRSA, a heart attack, or an earthquake.
The Apocalypse Times is not about running away...it is about running towards.
Modern antibiotics have been around for a relatively short time in human history. The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming occurred in 1928; he observed a mold which had grown by chance on a staphylococcus culture. The mold had surprisingly constructed a bacteria free zone around itself. The Scottish born researcher had stumbled upon a substance which would lengthen countless lives, especially after mass-production was refined during World War II. By the time the human devastation of D-Day was happening, thousands were being saved from once deadly gangrene with penicillin. Deadly and frightening diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis and syphilis became curable and surgery became a safe endeavor. To hear of someone today, dying of bacterial pneumonia would be shocking to us; but, it is happening. It is now widely known that once treatable diseases are becoming resistant to the miracle drugs of the past.
Antibiotic resistance first began to emerge not long after the drugs were put into wide use. It was in the 1950s that a form of staphylococcus know as S Aureus 80/81 was discovered in hospital maternity wards all over the world. Attempts were made to limit the use of antibiotics as researchers began to realize that bacteria had the ability to evolve immunity to antibiotics.
So what can we expect? Until a new silver bullet is discovered to fight the "superbugs", once thought of as eradicated afflictions will kill healthy people. Sadly, the recent death of a healthy 17 year old Virginia boy has slapped us in the face with that truth. We will see things like c. difficile, pneumonia and staph take people down in droves as they once did before the era of antibiotics was born.
A story ran recently on CNN that MRSA had been discovered in other Virginia schools. Well of course it had! No matter how many times schools are cleaned, hospitals are sanitized or hands are washed the bugs will survive. They will continue to fight for survival by acquiring resistance to any new drug that emerges and hide from our feeble attempts to flush them out with anti-bacterial soaps, bleach based cleaners or alcohol hand scrubs. Bacteria survive in the most hostile of earthly environments and they may well survive us.
In bygone days our leaders once comforted us with phrases like, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; yet today the newscasts we watch and the political pronouncements we hear are seething with hopelessness and chastising warnings that our imminent death is coming sooner than we think unless we take the recommended precautions. If you think that you can run from MRSA, forget it. So what must you do? Stand and fight! Fight bravely each and every day and never give up hope that peace is available to you. Fear really is your worst enemy and to spend your precious and limited time on this earth being frightened of bacteria is an insult to your soul, the ultimate in vanity, perhaps downright blasphemy.
Face your fear; distraction is no true escape. You won't stop panicking while watching a America's Funniest Home Videos, especially if you don't flip during the commercials. Look at your fear through a microscope and try to understand what your fear really represents. To know your enemy intimately is to know how to destroy him whether he is MRSA, a heart attack, or an earthquake.
The Apocalypse Times is not about running away...it is about running towards.
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