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#antibiotics

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Ivi Choc

#FYI #microplastics #pollution #environmentalpollution #antibiotics #antibioticresistance #antimicrobialresistance

"microplastics in the environment increase antibiotic resistance by up to 200 times"

Good morning, everybody!

soci.org/news/2025/1/antimicro

The original article, open access:

Yang et al. 2025 Environ Int 195: 109261
doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.

www.soci.orgAntimicrobial resistance: How microplastics can increase the spread of AMRMicroplastics in the environment increase the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by up to 200 times, according to research carried out at the UK’s Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research and Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China.
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Joseph Meyer

My mother was born in 1915, amazingly giving birth to me in her mid-forties. She lost a few childhood friends and relatives to diseases before vaccines were developed. She had her tonsils removed with ether as the anaesthesia; she had a deep foot wound treated before there were antibiotics. One interesting story she told me was her little brother developing an ear infection. A family doctor recommended a mastoid operation, but said the boy could lose his hearing in that ear. When my grandmother hesitated, the doctor said trials were being done with a new medication at a nearby research hospital. I think it was Emory University. My grandmother took her son, my mother’s brother, to that facility and they gave him a treatment that cleared up his ear infection. The treatment was penicillin, which was discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming at Saint Mary’s Hospital in London. At that time, U.S. citizens had the good sense to trust scientists and physicians more than politicians and charlatans.

#Science#Medicine#Antibiotics
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Wen

Forget Covid - this is scarier

AMR is already contributing to more than 35,000 deaths a year in the UK, estimates suggest. But the government “remains a long way” from achieving its aim of containing and controlling AMR, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.

If action is not taken to stem the crisis, the consequences for health, life expectancy, the functioning of the NHS and the wider economy would be “huge”.

theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibioticsBy Andrew Gregory
#UkPolitics#Health#Superbugs
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Yes, Imitation Meat Is Processed. Can It Also Be #Healthy?
After being targeted by the meat industry, swept up in the culture wars and pummeled in sales, two #plantbased meat companies are reinventing themselves.
Plant based meat is ultraprocessed, but not necessarily unhealthy, according to several experts. The products generally have less saturated fat, no cholesterol and more fiber than animal meat, and zero #hormones or #antibiotics.
nytimes.com/2025/01/16/climate
archive.ph/3Ym0C

Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods enjoyed a meteoric rise before they were characterized by rivals and critics as chemically laden, ultraprocessed foods.
The New York Times · Fake Meat Is Processed. What Does That Mean for Its Health Benefits.By Cara Buckley
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Thor A. Hopland

@futurebird this is also a problem in #Norway. Nobody's talking about the over #fishing or the #trawling off the coast that is destroying reefs, or even the fish farms in #Norwegian #fjords that are dumping massive amounts of #antibiotics into the water - because fish farms are havens for bacteria and viruses.

But some Spanish or Portuguese boats come up to take away quota from Norwegian companies? RABBLE, RABBLE, RABBLE!

People are greedy idiots sometimes.

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Science Updates

"We found that antibiotic resistance emerges much more rapidly in diabetic models than in non-diabetic models of disease," said Brian Conlon, PhD, of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. "This interplay between bacteria and diabetes could be a major driver of the rapid evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance that we are seeing."

#diabetes #health #medicine #science #research #biology #antibiotics

labroots.com/trending/microbio

LabrootsDoes Diabetes Drive Antibiotic Resistance? | MicrobiologyBacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics that resistant bacteria now .. | Microbiology
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