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Vakcíny versus superbakterie

Feb 11, 2016 Jim O'Neill

LONDÝN – Rozšíření viru zika – stejně jako předtím viru eboly – odhalilo, jaké riziko mohou infekční choroby představovat pro zdraví celých států – a jak důležité jsou vakcíny v boji proti rychle se šířícím epidemiím. Snaha o nalezení cest, jak očkovat lidi proti oběma virům, je už v plném proudu.

Vakcíny však hrají klíčovou roli také v tom, že nás chrání před mnohem smrtelnější a mnohem předvídatelnější hrozbou: rezistentními infekcemi.

Na rozdíl od nečekaných a rychle se šířících výskytů, jako je epidemie ziky, se antimikrobiální rezistence podobá autonehodě ve zpomaleném záběru, která už začala. Rezistentní patogeny si každoročně vyžádají životy asi 700 000 lidí. Nepřijmeme-li nezbytná opatření, budou do roku 2050 zabíjet zhruba deset milionů lidí ročně.

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Robbie Jena Feb 11, 2016

Superbug and CDC...the world is really big with over seven Billion people. Why can not others do serious research on bugs? and find good solutions...
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Michael Public Feb 11, 2016

The problem with vaccines is they can weaken your general system. They can save you improbable things like Rika and deliver you into the arms of probable things like Guillane-Barre Syndrone, Yuppie Flu or Cancer. Count me out.
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Peter Belmont Feb 11, 2016

The outrageous pricing behavior of the so-called big-pharma (and maybe also little-pharma) makes me wonder -- can I be alone? -- if the capitalist model is the right model for drug R&D&manufacture&sale.

A lot of the research for new drugs and vaccines is done at universities, funded (I suppose) largely by government. If this is so, how much more of the process could usefully be done by government? The problem of providing inexpensive drugs to poor people (and in poor countries) has been recognized and is opposed by big-pharma, including in the proposed TPP.

Similarly, "capitalism" or "free enterprise" left to itself has done nothing to fight Global Warming/Climate Change adn continues (as I see it) to stand in the way of speedy (or even of not-quite-timely) action.

So perhaps, as far as human health is concerned, we should be seeking another model to replace and supplant "free enterprise" with a m,ecnanism that shows better promise of successfully fighting new, resistant, and "orphan" diseases.

Of course, the present system encourages certain deaths -- from diseases today, from climate later -- which is one way, I suppose, to do something we should be doing, namely, reducing the size of the human population. Maybe complaint is, therefore, misplaced. --sad face--
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Steve Hurst Feb 11, 2016

With regard to the need for new antibiotics - It will be an entire waste of time unless the abuse or misuse of antibiotics - not least by the agri sector - is curtailed. Exisiting misuse is the game is still in play and delivering new resistant pathogens
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