Are we all going to die in a pandemic?

[thisprairielife]

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[grindcore]

yeah like 5 people died from MRSA

not concerned here

[jinkun2702]

Indeed, this.

[_chalcedony]

my mom didn't die from mrsa but her having it severely compromised her immune system which consequently killed her. doctors agreed that though it wasn't her cause of death it definitely contributed to it.

not trying to ~scare monger~ but that's usually what freaks me out when i think of antibiotic resistant infections!

[_chalcedony]

then again my mom was already quite sick when she contracted mrsa - it's pretty hard to catch it if you're otherwise healthy. hence why most people should not be concerned with diseases like this. we had to wear quarantine outfits when in the room with her, not for our own protection, but because of the danger of spreading it around the hospital and infecting other sick people.

[iyoichi]

Well... crap.

[catchthesparrow]

people still survive this, because they get treatment for it.
not many people have died from this.

[catchthesparrow]

as someone said above ^ not concerned.

[karpour]

IMO the hospitals need some new ideas to avoid the selection of resistant infections

[heartttcore]

Hospitals aren't the people who are using the most antibiotics. 90% of our antibiotics actually to factory farmed animals. So now you have another reason to be mad at corporations, or if you weren't already, a reason to get mad at them.

[heartttcore]

(I'm speaking USA here, btw.)

[thisprairielife]

THIS. Unfortunately not everyone can go into sustenance farming for themselves. I can. :) I get a half gallon of raw goat's milk every day which is more than enough for our family (soap making soon, yay!), and we also raise meat goats, minimal antibiotics, only if we have to do minor surgery, which has happened like, once.

[ferahgo]

What a terrible article, filled with the rhetoric and drama-mongering that has become depressingly typical amongst unprofessional popular science reporters.

This isn't the first time that I've considered the Wikipedia article a considerably more balanced and more informative source on a topic than common news sources, especially since they usually link to the actual peer-reviewed studies in the sources.

[mellifluous_ink]

Agreeing with this mf here: your icon is full of pretty. I love dinosaurs.