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Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« on: February 14, 2023, 09:48:02 am »
Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
By Janelle Chavez, CNN
Published 9:30 AM EST, Tue February 7, 2023

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Climate change and antimicrobial resistance are two of the greatest threats to global health, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

The report, titled “Bracing for Superbugs,” highlights the role of climate change and other environmental factors contributing to the rise of antimicrobial resistance. It was announced Tuesday at the Sixth Meeting of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance in Barbados.

Antimicrobial resistance or AMR happens when germs such as bacteria, viruses and fungi develop the ability to defeat the medications designed to kill them.
 
More people died of drug-resistant bacterial infections in 2019 than HIV or malaria, new study suggests

“The development and spread of AMR means that antimicrobials used to prevent and treat infections in humans, animals and plants might turn ineffective, with modern medicine no longer able to treat even mild infections,” the UN Environment Programme said in a news release.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/health/superbugs-climate-change-scn/index.html
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2023, 09:53:08 am »
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2023, 01:44:36 pm »
One of the worst is the United Nitwits bug!
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2023, 01:52:21 pm »
AMR is just Natural Selection at work.  Mother Nature is just trying to find a way to cull the human herd.

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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2023, 02:09:20 pm »
Bullshit.

We already heard about the ongoing gain-of-function research being carried out on the corporate level, and because that's a highly competitive environment, it's not foolish to assume that more than one company is doing it.

Then there are the biowar labs, and if the commercial labs aren't playing by the rules, it's even less likely those out there looking for 'Captain Trips' are, either.

So quit trying to blame all the world's evils on the weather, and put them where they belong.
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2023, 02:53:34 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 14, 2023, 01:52:21 pm
AMR is just Natural Selection at work.  Mother Nature is just trying to find a way to cull the human herd.

Don’t know if you’re serious, but you are correct about natural selection—just not about the culling.  Microorganisms, like bacteria and viruses, need the host alive and multiplying.  It’s not a viable survival strategy for microbes to decimate populations. Nature prefers balance to asymmetry.  A little bit here, a little bit there.

As for the drug resistance aspect of the report, I hope they’re not trying to say that drug resistance in microbial life is a new phenomenon (brought about directly as a result of “climate change”)?  Which has been noted and studied since the earliest days of pharmaceuticals, and is indeed simply natural selection in action.
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2023, 03:20:00 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 14, 2023, 02:09:20 pm
Bullshit.

We already heard about the ongoing gain-of-function research being carried out on the corporate level, and because that's a highly competitive environment, it's not foolish to assume that more than one company is doing it.

Then there are the biowar labs, and if the commercial labs aren't playing by the rules, it's even less likely those out there looking for 'Captain Trips' are, either.

So quit trying to blame all the world's evils on the weather, and put them where they belong.


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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2023, 03:52:32 pm »
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Re: Climate change is contributing to the rise of superbugs, new UN report says
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2023, 04:14:26 pm »
If there is any prliferation of pathogenic super-bugs, it's due to government sponsored gain of function type activities.

Kind of greasing the skids aren't they?
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