Curious Cat Cool Connections: Overuse of Antibiotics
- Miracle Drugs vs. Superbug - Article by Tamar Nordenberg, FDA Consumer Magazine, Nov 1988.
- CDC - Antibiotic Resistance - Center for
Disease Control "portal" relating to Antibiotic Resistance. "Overuse of antibiotics is jeopardizing the
usefulness of essential drugs. Decreasing inappropriate antibiotic use is the best way to control
resistance."
- Antimicrobial Resistance - CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases site provides both general and technical information about "drug
resistance."
- CDC expands campaign against overuse of antibiotics - July 2000 article from CNN Health.
- Bacteria Race Ahead of Drugs - Terry Hazen, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and director of its ecology program, is not at all surprised by the tenacity of our bacterial foes. "We are talking about 3.5 billion years of evolution," he said. "They are the dominant life on Earth."
- The Antibiotic-Resistant Blues - Article by Dugan Holtey, Wisconsin Engineer, April 2000.
- The Antibiotics Crisis - "We're in the midst of an escalating arms race with the microbe, and we may
be losing." Article by J. Madeleine Nash, Time, Jan 2001.
- Drug-resistant germs more common in USA - "Drug-resistant bacteria that were rare just six years ago now are the most
common cause of skin and soft-tissue infections treated in emergency rooms at 11 hospitals across the USA, a
study finds." Aug 2006
- There's Hope for Slowing Antibiotic Resistance - Jan 2001 article from WebMD Medical News.
- Drug Resistance - Listen to Audio report from All Things Considered, NPR, Dec 2000 (4 minutes). "Two
new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that there has been a marked increase in resistance
in just the last two years."
- Antibiotic Overload: Who's at Fault? - July 2000 article by Daniel DeNoon, WebMD Medical News.
- New Class Of Antibiotics Stops Pathogens In Their Genetic Tracks - "Researchers
have found that a promising new class of antibacterial chemicals inhibits one of the most fundamental processes
of life ? a cell's ability to express genetic material." Ohio State, Oct 2003.
- Bad Bugs No Drugs - 37 page white paper (pdf format) by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. The paper examines a "frightening twist in the antibiotic resistance problem that has not received adequate attention from federal policymakers..."
- Antibiotics: Too much of a good thing - From the Mayo Clinic: "Taking antibiotics when you don't
need them can lead to germs that are antibiotic-resistant . one of the gravest threats to public health
worldwide."
- Mutant syphilis strain resists common cure - "A
fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some
patients as an alternative to painful penicillin shots." CNN July 2004.
- Common blood infection kills millions - "Sepsis
is estimated to affect 18 million people worldwide each year and kill 1,400 people each day.... Part of the
problem is antibiotic overuse that has created drug-resistant germs. CNN, Feb 2004.
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