Super Bug

I was reading today about how they anticipate more deaths will occur from a Superbug than from the AIDS virus.

The Superbug is a drug resistant staph infection. On the average most staph infections won't really do too much harm, but some may actually "enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly."

Apparently, these little Staphylococcus bugs have caught on to our over use of antibiotics and now doctors and hospitals are going to try to curb the use of them.

I had a conversation about 15 years ago with a co-worker about this very same thing. She was at a dinner party where several of her friends who have PhD.'s in all sorts of different fields were discussing that one day, our overuse of antibiotics will turn against us.

It makes common sense to me actually. Viruses are smart little things...they learn how to survive and adapt...pretty much like people do. If you have ever watched the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith makes the statement : “I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we... are the cure.”

This is a line from a movie, it's fiction, but it does make you think. Well, it made me think.

M sent me this great article in Slate magazine this week: Why Americans should eat more Crap!
I agree! My generation (I'm at the tail end of the baby boomers), were part of the last group of people who weren't over protected as kids. Consumer advocacy groups where just starting to gain momentum in the late 60's and 70's. We were still eating led paint and eating raw potatoes, and cooking our steaks rare and taking our lunches to school in brown paper bags that did not keep our mayo based sandwich cold at all!

Is this all part of a natural life/death cycle? We, as humans have overcome so many other health issues in the past, I am sure we will learn to overcome this as well.

I found a great card the other day, it said: Jim ate well and exercised regularly, but he died anyway!

It's like Rosanne Rosannadanna used to say: If it's not one thing, it's another!