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rwsanders

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8. Here's a link about how the obsession with "sterile" environments actually helps the spread...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 02:05 PM

Feb 2013

I'm not disputed the Big Ag connection. I worked for MO Department of Natural Resources (which is fundamentally designed to prevent anyone in the state from more agressive EPA action, and preventing most meaningful enforcement).
But the point of the article is that if you remove more prolific but less virulent "outdoor" bugs, all you get in a hospital environment is human derived bugs which are largely pathogenic. If you then constantly try to "sterilize", the bugs that are left are the worst of the worst.
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-earths-last-unexplored-wilderness-your-home

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Reports of rare superbug jump in US, CDC says [View all] TexasTowelie Feb 2013 OP

Sorry we can't do anything because of the Sequester. The Virus Spreads and finally explodes... Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #1

Good points.The FDA and big pharma get to decide standard of care. WCLinolVir Feb 2013 #4

The cold hard fact, it will take a superbug killing a couple million Americans Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #5

But the Repukes will be ecstatic TexasTowelie Feb 2013 #9

Your not far off unfortunately. It's all those "takers" dying...yeah they'd be happy. Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #10

Katrina anyone? WCLinolVir Feb 2013 #17

Don't knock it, this happened to Syphilis in 1957 happyslug Feb 2013 #13

Health care workers my foot! Brainstormy Feb 2013 #2

Enjoy those Big Macs! bemildred Feb 2013 #3

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A welcome reminder... TeeYiYi Feb 2013 #14

Yes, probiotics and prebiotics siligut Feb 2013 #15

In the future... TeeYiYi Feb 2013 #16

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If their going to kill us..they could at least give us "The Rage" virus Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #11

Six months with the sequester and anything else that comes down the pipes and Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #12

Here's a link about how the obsession with "sterile" environments actually helps the spread... rwsanders Feb 2013 #8

It seems to me that this info means we should be paying more attention to immigrants from the ME & kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #18