Do you wonder why it’s getting harder for doctors to treat infection these days?
One of the greatest health threats of our time, one that grows by the year, is antimicrobial resistance.
Bacteria and other microbes develop mutations that protect themself against antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs, meaning that infections, including deadly ones, that we can now treat will become more difficult even impossible to treat.
It could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. But just how likely is this?
Antibiotic Resistance: Widespread and inappropriate use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
The misuse of antibiotics in healthcare, agriculture, and livestock contributes to the development of superbugs that are challenging to treat.
This resistance undermines the effectiveness of standard treatments, leading to more persistent and severe infections.
A New York Times article in December 2019 that warned of bankruptcies of antibiotic start-ups, threatening an already inadequate pipeline of new antibiotics, states, “Without new therapies, the United Nations says the global death toll could soar to 10 million by 2050.” And indeed, the United Nations said just that – though with emphasis on the word “could.”
An April 2019 report from a UN interagency group stated: “Drug-resistant diseases already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally a year, the most alarming scenario if no action is taken”.I could continue along these lines.
Enter “10 million deaths antimicrobial resistance” into an Internet search engine, and you will find a plethora of examples like the news articles and programs cited above.
“This is a silent tsunami,” Haileyesus Getahun, director of the U.N. Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance—an Ad hoc committee of public health experts, government ministers and industry officials convened in March 2017—tells The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs.
“We are not seeing the political momentum we’ve seen in other public health emergencies, but if we don’t act now, antimicrobial resistance will have a disastrous impact within a generation.”
What you can do to combat these stubborn infections
Herbal expert Stephen Harrods Buhner offers compelling evidence that medicinal herbs should be our first line of defense against disease.
He explains the roots of drug resistance and why medicinal herbs can work better than pharmaceutical drugs.
Drawing on massive amounts of scientific research, Buhner’s book provides in-depth profiles of and recipes for using the most reliably effective herbs to treat common ailments, urinary tract infections and blood infectiona, as well as life-threatening methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other infections.
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What so many people missed is that all life on Earth is highly intelligent and unbelievably adaptable.
Bacteria are the oldest forms of life on this planet and have learned supremely well how to react to threats to their well-being.
The world is filled with antibacterial substances, most produced by other bacteria as well as by fungi and plants.
To survive, bacteria mastered a very long time ago how to respond to those substances. As soon as a bacterium develops a method for countering an antibiotic, it systematically begins to pass the knowledge on to other bacteria at an extremely rapid rate.
In fact, bacteria are now communicating across bacterial species lines — something they were never known to do before the advent of commercial antibiotics.
They transfer a significant amount of resistance information by releasing it into the environment to be taken up by other bacteria.