Coronavirus - Is this the killer flu that will wipe us out?
Discussion
It isn’t confirmed yet that this particular virus is human-human transmissible and it most likely isn’t. That is often the case with infections caught from another species.
There is always the possibility that a virus could mutate to become human-human transmissible and the more humans that are infected, the more likely that becomes.
But it isn’t common enough to be of immediate concern.
There is always the possibility that a virus could mutate to become human-human transmissible and the more humans that are infected, the more likely that becomes.
But it isn’t common enough to be of immediate concern.
JPJPJP said:
And, in the longer term, unless new antibiotics are developed and/or the world gets better at using the current ones in order to retain their effectiveness, then we might have a much reduced armoury against infections that are quite easily treated today, but that without treatment would kill plenty of people
I didn't read it, but the headline was something about cannabis being of possible use against antibiotic resistant superbugs.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/19/ca...
This is the most interesting (to me) part of the article
“when CBG was used with small quantities of polymyxin B, an existing antibiotic that disrupts the outer membrane of gram negative bacteria, the cannabis compound wiped out the drug-resistant pathogens.“
Combinations of an anti microbial + something else that helps it work might be a relatively easy win in finding useful treatments for some infections
Here is a bit about it from a charity that you might consider bunging a few bob to
https://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk/research/ant...
“when CBG was used with small quantities of polymyxin B, an existing antibiotic that disrupts the outer membrane of gram negative bacteria, the cannabis compound wiped out the drug-resistant pathogens.“
Combinations of an anti microbial + something else that helps it work might be a relatively easy win in finding useful treatments for some infections
Here is a bit about it from a charity that you might consider bunging a few bob to
https://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk/research/ant...
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 19th January 20:17
That's not a new approach, though - e.g. https://gskpro.com/en-mt/products/augmentin/indica...
otolith said:
That's not a new approach, though - e.g. https://gskpro.com/en-mt/products/augmentin/indica...
Indeed, absent new classes of antibiotics being discovered, previous science is being revisited. Phage therapy for instance making headlines again https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uo...Meanwhile antibiotic developers are going skint: Melinta and Achaogen showing how hard it is to make antibiotics pay, even with fda approval etc http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/12...
Macron said:
Flight bans soon? Here is the WHO page
https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/nov...
at the time of writing this it has not been updated since 17 Jan
https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/nov...
at the time of writing this it has not been updated since 17 Jan
JPJPJP said:
Meanwhile antibiotic developers are going skint: Melinta and Achaogen showing how hard it is to make antibiotics pay, even with fda approval etc http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/12...
Yes, this is madness. By the time we really need novel antibiotics there won't be time to develop them. The free market will deliver - eventually - just not in time for people who catch bacteria which are resistant to everything.There was a neat experiment using a mobile phone app to simulate contagion of a pathogen - using Bluetooth, proximity to an "infected" phone carried a risk of becoming infected oneself. I think it was a documentary, but I can't find it now. Key thing was that some people were superspreaders because of their social networks, and infected many more people than average.
Alucidnation said:
Odd question but how do these things even begin to start 'forming'?
Is it a normal strain that someone has caught and for whatever reasons, it's mutated into something stronger and then been passed on?
Or is it something that is man made and released into the air for population control?
Indeed. Also why do these pandemic viruses always seem to emerge from the far east, what the hell are the Chinese up to!?Is it a normal strain that someone has caught and for whatever reasons, it's mutated into something stronger and then been passed on?
Or is it something that is man made and released into the air for population control?
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