by Keith Scott-Mumby
March 02, 2015

from NaturalSolutionsRadio Website

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I've been saying it for 2 years: the antibiotic era is OVER; it's done.

Now an article at MedicineNet.com is asking the question:

Is this the beginning of the end of the antibiotic era?

It's the response to a hot new item published in the prestigious British journal The Lancet (Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study - 11 August 2010).

The latest trouble comes from the fact that resistant germs are swapping genes and information on how to resist antibiotics. The bugs don't even have to have faced antibiotic fire to gain resistance; it's passed from one to another, like caching secret weapons in a guerilla war!

They are ready for us when we trot out the drugs. The antibiotics just don't work.
 

The Technical Stuff

Multiple drug resistance is spreading worldwide among bacteria, transferred easily by a gene called NDM, which makes germs impervious to many antibiotics .

The gene evolved in India - NDM stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase - but is now widespread in Pakistan and moving rapidly across the globe, thanks to modern fast transportation (again, exactly as I have been warning).

The bad news is that NDM has been isolated all across the U.K., prompting a national alert there, and has now reached the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Australia, and the Netherlands.

"This heralds a new and darker dawn in infections," said Walsh Timothy R. Walsh, PhD, professor of infection, immunity, and biochemistry at Wales' Cardiff University.

 

"If we looked in India a few years ago we would not have seen this. But in three or four years it has gone into 1% to 4% of the [gut] bacteria population in India. That is incredible. It came from nowhere."

Not worried yet? You should be.

The news is worse than you think. This is not about hospital bugs. Bacteria carrying the NDM gene are spreading throughout affected communities. It's out; it's on the loose. You could be carrying the deadly resistance package right now and you could spread it, without ever being infected or harmed by the bacteria.

It's bad in the UK. How bad is it in the US?

The CDC admits they just don't know its prevalence. That itself is scary.

Brandi Limbago, PhD, the CDC team leader for antimicrobial resistance and characterization said,

"The rate it is spreading in the U.K. is concerning. We don't have info on the U.S. I don't know if we should be terrified or moderately worried."

And you need to be clear about this: there are no new drugs in pipeline for NDM superbugs.

"The only possible thing to do is to treat patients with an antibiotic cocktail and hope it might have an effect. But that is very difficult to do," professor Walsh says.

 

"You can use high-level dosing, but the danger is you run into toxicity issues."

And Timothy R. Walsh goes on to say,

"We must, must, must consider antibiotic resistance as a global problem. It is not just in India. This is a prime example how if it starts in one country, it can spread massively throughout the globe."

There is only one answer:

alternative antibiotic remedies.

There are hundreds of them and I have catalogued all the good ones in my book called "How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics".

I have been warning of the dangers for some time now and I can only repeat: you simply cannot afford to be without this knowledge. Antibiotics can kill within hours and it's no time to start Googling your options if somebody gets sick.

Find out BEFORE danger strikes...