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scienceplease 2
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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: E. Coli Outbreak In Europe Is New Strain, WHO |
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| Quote: | The E. Coli bacteria behind the outbreak in Europe that has left 17 people dead and sickened at least 1,500 others, including a third with kidney failure, is a new strain not seen before, the World Health Organization told the media earlier today, Thursday. Experts suggest the new strain is a combination of two aggressive strains, that we may never find the source, and the real shape of the outbreak is yet to reveal itself.
The outbreak has been associated with cucumbers and other vegetables in Germany, although the authorities are still trying to trace the source. |
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/227309.php |
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| Quote: | | Forensic evidence emerges that European e.coli superbug was bioengineered to produce human fatalities |
http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bioengineering.html
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This particular e.coli variation is a member of the O104 strain, and O104 strains are almost never (normally) resistant to antibiotics. In order for them to acquire this resistance, they must be repeatedly exposed to antibiotics in order to provide the "mutation pressure" that nudges them toward complete drug immunity.
So if you're curious about the origins of such a strain, you can essentially reverse engineer the genetic code of the e.coli and determine fairly accurately which antibiotics it was exposed to during its development. This step has now been done (see below), and when you look at the genetic decoding of this O104 strain now threatening food consumers across the EU, a fascinating picture emerges of how it must have come into existence.
The genetic code reveals the history
When scientists at Germany's Robert Koch Institute decoded the genetic makeup of the O104 strain, they found it to be resistant to all the following classes and combinations of antibiotics:
• penicillins
• tetracycline
• nalidixic acid
• trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol
• cephalosporins
• amoxicillin / clavulanic acid
• piperacillin-sulbactam
• piperacillin-tazobactam
In addition, this O104 strain posses an ability to produce special enzymes that give it what might be called "bacteria superpowers" known technically as ESBLs:
"Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes that can be produced by bacteria making them resistant to cephalosporins e.g. cefuroxime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime - which are the most widely used antibiotics in many hospitals," explains the Health Protection Agency in the UK (http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/Infect...).
On top of that, this O104 strain possesses two genes -- TEM-1 and CTX-M-15 -- that "have been making doctors shudder since the 1990s," reports The Guardian... And why do they make doctors shudder? Because they're so deadly that many people infected with such bacteria experience critical organ failure and simply die.
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I am wondering if the ecoli breakout, which could well be a test case plague release, is not cover as the Bilderberg and ARK conferences begin. As we know they milk every event they set fourth to its max, and of course the ecoli is another nail in the coffin of our ability to purchase fresh outside the super'chem'markets.
The apathy of the global populations is beyond my comprehension, soap operas becoming the suckle dummy for the masses to the point the lives lived in the soaps are more important than their own real time lives.....
Mass escapism has become today's society, drugs, fluoridated beer, and now they want lithium to keep the status quo...
Living in Britain today is akin to millions washed upon a shipwrecked island neither knowing the other. There is no community there is no common ethos we hold as our own, perfect terrain for the implementation to the younger generations the mind map coming out of ARK and it's military script.
something needs to change and that change is not coming from the systems now under full control of the corporate, the change must come from the people...
can someone switch off the TV networks??
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| I just ordered a theatre ticket at eventim for another stage adaption of Orwell's 1984 which is supposed to deal with current events too. I'm really excited about this, wonder what it'll be like... |
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