Just a personal word of “thanks” to all the vectorists out there

Although a write-up as recently as January 7, 2007 on enterobacter cloacae indicates that:

Although community-acquired infections are occasionally observed, nosocomial infections are, by far, the most frequent.

the (hiking/biking enthusiast and quite healthy) best friend of my fiancé called last night to express her regrets that she couldn’t help with preparations and may be unable to attend our upcoming wedding due to the fact that she may have to be hospitalized with a community acquired multi-drug resistant strain of enterobacter cloacae.  No she hasn’t been in the hospital, nor in any medical facility, nor is she in contact with any medical personnel, so this notnosocomial”.

I wish I could convey my “thanks” to all the vectorists more personally but this blog entry must do…. for now…

PS: The most likely source of the bacteria was a California poultry farm.

Posted by James Bowery on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 03:59 PM in
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Posted by Poultry on January 27, 2007, 05:00 PM | #

I was reading recently about dangerous forms of staph bacteria that are now “in the community.”  Apparently, a person can become “colonized” with these bacteria without any immediate problem, but a skin wound can then introduce the pathogen internally and cause serious disease.  Note also that surveys of urban “health clubs” indicate that some of the equipment (I read of, for example, “medicine balls”) may be contaminated.  Not to mention any area of public gathering.

Like James and others here, I am old enough to remember an era in which one may have had to worry about the flu, but not multidrug resistant strains of deadly bacteria, SARS, and all the other microorganismal “benefits” of human biological “diversity.”

No public figure or health report is willing to go on record as to connect human migratory streams with increased risk of mortality and morbidity from infections diseases.  They did admit that the bedbug epidemic may be linked to “global travel”, but they are reticent to stress the link otherwise. 

And when some looked askance at Asian migratory flows during the SARS outbreak, the Asiatics were quick to cry discrimination.

After all, “share and share alike”, - eh?

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Posted by alex zeka on January 28, 2007, 04:38 AM | #

It’s quite interesting to note that mainstream authorities do recognise the dangers of diverse mixing, e.g. the syphilis brought across to MesoAmerica by the Conquistadors, to which the natives had no resistance, but only in a purely historical context. This is very odd, and requires not just ignoring a fact, but acknowledging it but not drawing the bloody obvious conclusion from it. Doublethink, eh.

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Posted by James Bowery on January 28, 2007, 04:49 AM | #

The current situation is even nastier since not only is horizontal transmission enhanced by international migration, but the diffusion of antibiotics technologies from Europeans to the rest of the world has resulted in a vastly greater population abusing antibiotics and creating resistant strains.  Thus we see not merely resistance but virulence increasing.  The use of “migrant workers” for our recklessly centralized food sources is most likely critical for the creation of some of these nasty killers.

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Posted by Uberto on January 28, 2007, 01:11 PM | #

“It’s quite interesting to note that mainstream authorities do recognise the dangers of diverse mixing, e.g. the syphilis brought across to MesoAmerica by the Conquistadors, to which the natives had no resistance, but only in a purely historical context.”
Posted by alex zeka on Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 08:38 AM | #

Actually, syphilis traveled the other way across the Atlantic - from the New World Indians to Old World Europeans.  A better example of a disease that decimated the Indigenous populations of the Americas after arriving from Eruope is smallpox.  There are reports of Indians so riddled with pockmarks and pus that their skin, which was plastered to the reed mats on which they slept, literally peeled off their bodies when they tried to move around.  Historians believe it was this horrible disease that killed between 50-80% of the “pre-contact” Amerindians.  And some medical authorities think we’re in for another round of this plague in the very near future…

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Posted by alex zeka on January 29, 2007, 04:45 AM | #

Thanks for that correction, Uberto.

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