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Joyful
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 02:20 |
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Drug-Resistant TB Spreading Faster Than Experts Feared - Associated Press and Fox News
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than medical experts had feared, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain topped 20 percent in some countries, the highest ever recorded, the U.N. agency said. "Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to see rates like this," said Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of WHO's "Stop TB" department. "This demonstrates what happens when you keep making mistakes in TB treatment."
Experts also worry about the spread of XDR-TB, or extensively drug-resistant TB, a strain virtually untreatable in poor countries. When an XDR-TB outbreak was identified in AIDS patients in South Africa in 2006, it killed nearly every patient within weeks. WHO's report said XDR-TB has now been found in 45 countries.
"Multi-drug resistant TB is a threat to every person on the planet," said Mark Harrington, executive director of Treatment Action Group, a public health think tank. "It's not like HIV, where you are only infected through specific actions. TB is a threat to every person who takes a train or a plane."
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Dr Trevor Marshall
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 04:06 |
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Additionally, latent TB is also surging. I covered the topic of the TB epidemic in my latest paper.
The biggest problem is the failure of Medicine to ask questions about exactly how antibiotics work, and to adapt the decades-old therapies to take advantage of new knowledge.
You can lay this epidemic directly at the feet of Robert Koch, and the generations of his disciples who have clung to his simplistic description of infectious disease
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Joyful
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 04:13 |
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Do you think that having these diseases start to resist "age-old" treatments will help open up the thinking of medical doctors to some of the science you have worked on?
Or is that just too much to hope for at this point? 
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Dr Trevor Marshall
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 04:29 |
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I fear that the Infectious Diseases Specialty is quite happy to blame the microbe, rather than their own incompetence.
For example, you might recall the attorney who had resistant TB and flew around the world. The therapy proposed was to surgically remove a section of his lung where the TB had supposedly flourished.
If somebody can explain the biology supporting that type of intervention, I would be only to happy to 'chat' with them...
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Posted: Thu Feb 28th, 2008 06:47 |
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Eliminate the host.
A therapy more acceptable in veterinary medicine.
I was told by a doctor that when Babesiosis is found in livestock they just "put them down" because it is not cost effective or perhaps even possible to cure them. Not a really encouraging thought for the patient to contemplate!
Your explanation that the root cause is a system-wide bacterial invasion of the immune system exposes these types of treatments (such as cutting parts out of the patient) as being as useless (and as harmful) as bloodletting!
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Claudia
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 08:09 |
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Is there anyone on the MP with TB?
A friend of mine from Ireland (of all places!) has a brother who contracted TB a few years back and is currently just hanging on to his health by a thread. Do you think the MP would be appropriate for him?
Thanks,
C
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MP Phase1 23Mar_06; Phase2 July 10_06; Phase3 Nov 4_06. Dx Thyroiditis (Thyroxine); arthritis; glaucoma; CFS (1988-92);Kidney & bladder probs. Feb06 1,25D=43.3; Aug07 1,25D=27.5; Feb06 25D=44; Aug07 25D=28; Nov07 25D=36; Mar08 25D=16.4
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Dr Trevor Marshall
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 08:21 |
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Claudia,
The D metabolites would give some data to start out with
Most people with chronic infection fail to recover from that chronic infection as a result of a Th1-weakened immune system (or an HIV-weakened immune system).
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Meg Mangin R.N.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 08:22 |
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Claudia, one cannot be on the MP while taking the mandated drugs to treat tuberculosis. This can take several years.
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Claudia
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 15:28 |
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Oh, I see. Too bad about that. 
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 22:09 |
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Could he not stop whatever TB drugs he's on and switch to the MP meds?
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 00:31 |
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