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"One hundred thousand people die in hospitals every year from bacterial infections that are largely related to drug-resistant bacteria that have evolved from careless use of high-powered antibiotics to treat non-life-threatening infections or their misuse. Many scientists and infectious-disease specialists predict that we may get to the point where we can't find any new medications that will treat these new forms of bacteria. For instance, new strains of the bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA (which is highly resistant to antibiotics) are becoming more common." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"A good book to read on this subject is The Killers Within, The Deadly Rise of drug-resistant bacteria by Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin.) So let us look at the FACTS at a glance: FACT: Antibiotics don't work for viral infections. FACT: Half of all antibiotics, up to 90% of all antibiotics administered/prescribed, are unnecessary. FACT: The overuse of antibiotics can cause bacteria to mutate so that antibiotics no longer work in the end. The more antibiotics you use, the more drug resistance you see." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Ironically, the development of drug-resistant bacteria favors pharmaceutical companies, because the rise of new strains of resistant bacteria, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (staph infection), often coincides with old drugs going off patent. In the past twenty years, there has been more than a thirteenfold increase in the number of bacteria resistant to methicillin. These events have required the development of newer, more expensive antibiotics that companies can accurately argue are more effective than the old drugs." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Those numbers do not include the deaths from drug-resistant bacteria that now live outside hospitals, an invisible threat with the potential to cause pandemics that scientists are only beginning to comprehend. In 1999 doctors reported that four children from Minnesota and North Dakota had died from the virulent mutant bug MRSA. That wasn't the part of the news that had disturbed physicians. Thousands of Americans had been dying from that drug-resistant staph bacterium every year." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The researchers theorized that the white suburban children had a higher risk of harboring the drug-resistant bacteria because they had better access to health care and had taken more antibiotics. At the same time, Iowans who heeded the advice in the drug advertisements by asking their doctors for one of the new heavily promoted antibiotics like Zithromax or Biaxin were also more at risk. These new drugs worked against a broader spectrum of germs than did older drugs like penicillin." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"This was the first time the FDA had banned an antibiotic used in animal health because of the potential harm posed to people by the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. What this means for you: Greater attention is being given to antibiotic use in agriculture, animals and people. Europe has instituted a ban on the use of all growth-promoting antibiotics. In the US, antibiotics are still given to poultry to increase growth. The FDA is currently reviewing the issue, and many experts believe the US should also ban growth-promoting antibiotics." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"To be more specific, we know certain circumstances favor drug-resistant bacteria as opposed to normal bacteria, or big-beaked birds as opposed to little-beaked birds, or black-peppered moths as opposed to white-peppered moths. In such circumstances, the population of normal bacteria, small-beaked birds and white-peppered gypsy moths may become reduced as long as circumstances adverse to them prevail, but they do not disappear. As circumstances change, their portion of the genome may again come to predominate, and the population can fluctuate back. How far can a new species vary?" - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Farmed salmon are frequently fed antibiotics, which contribute to the growth of drug-resistant bacteria. In addition, chemical are often added to their food to color their flesh pink to resemble their wild cousins. Otherwise, they would remain an unappetizing grayish-brown color. Sales have increased up to 15 percent a year as more people eat oily fish to prevent heart attacks, or so they are made to believe." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Experts say our overuse of antibiotics is largely to blame: antibiotics encourage proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) examined death records nationwide and found 65 deaths among every 100,000 people were caused by infectious disease, up from 41 of every 100,000 deaths 12 years earlier. In 1946, just five years after penicillin came into wide use, doctors discovered a staphylococcus bacteria that was not vulnerable to the drug. Pharmacologists developed new antibiotics, but new drug-resistant bacteria appeared." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

"But the downsides to antibiotics are showing up more and more with virulent drug-resistant bacteria becoming more prevalent and side effects to antibiotics taking their toll. Medical frequency technology, such as Rife created, is much cleaner with no side effects, and does not create drug-resistant bacteria. Moreover it works on viruses, which antibiotics and modern medicine still have not been able to fully conquer. It is very interesting to note that, in the May 2003 issue of Reader's Digest, there is an article about some new and promising treatments for breast cancer." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Each unnecessary prescription strengthens the legions of drug-resistant bacteria. In many cases, the better medicine would be no medicine—but try telling that to a man, woman, or child who feels sick and wants help. More and more troublesome hospital cases are arising in which patients become seriously ill or die because they are infected with pathogens so resilient that drugs offer the immune system no help. Few new antibiotics will be approved in the next few years because the big drug companies pinched their research pipelines for so long." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"As more of our gold-standard single-bullet drugs become less effective against newly developing strains of drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, we will probably see more interest and research on medicinal plants, herb-based drugs, and traditional remedies. The rainforests of the world are, and will continue to be, of great importance and one of the main areas where this research will likely take place. Rainforests hold the highest biodiversity and sheer number of novel chemicals on the planet." - Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.)

"Medical frequency technology, such as Rife created, is much cleaner with no side effects, and does not create drug-resistant bacteria. Moreover it works on viruses, which antibiotics and modern medicine still have not been able to fully conquer. It is very interesting to note that, in the May 2003 issue of Reader's Digest, there is an article about some new and promising treatments for breast cancer. On pages 64-67, the article talks about one of these "new" treatments, called "RFA" (radiofrequency ablation)." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"As infants and adults everywhere cough, burp, kiss, eat, go to the bathroom, have sex, and travel from country to country doing all these things, the drug-resistant bacteria are spread throughout local populations and then around the globe. They intermingle and share their genes for antibiotic resistance. As Levy says, "The exchange of resistance genes is so widespread that the entire bacterial world can be thought of as one huge organism that is adapting against our arsenal of drugs." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) "For example, the debate over dumping low-dose antibiotics into feed for animals such as cows, pigs, and chickens still rages on, even though we now know that the antibiotics strengthen drug-resistant bacteria both in the animals and in the people who then eat them as meat. WHO officials have advised that the practice be discontinued, after further research under a far-reaching program in Denmark; that country banned the use of such drugs in 1998." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"What's worse, the use of antibiotics has become so widespread that drug-resistant bacteria have increased and our natural immune systems run the risk of being weakened. Antibiotics have even invaded our food supplies —chickens, pigs, and cattle are routinely given massive doses of drugs to ward off infections. European laws prohibit this practice. While the antibiotics in livestock may not make their way into our bodies directly, they do contribute to the growth of drug-resistant bacteria that pass from animals to humans." - Ronald L. Hoffman, M.D., Intelligent Medicine: A Guide to Optimizing Health and Preventing Illness for the Baby-Boomer Generation (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER SEVEN THE NEXT FLU PANDEMIC: Rapidly Mutating Viruses The alarming evolution Of deadlier and more drug-resistant bacteria presents a grave challenge. That threat is joined by the escalating dangers of viruses. Just as with bacteria, killer viruses lurk everywhere, and they are even more cunning. The threat of future pandemics is brought home by the story of the insidious influenza virus." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"In children, ear infections treated with antibiotics cause yeast and drug-resistant bacteria gliotoxins which pass the stomach wal 1 into the bloodstream and cause hyperactivity, learning and developmental disorders, and autism. Breast feed infants, and avoid preschool and daycare center germ breeding grounds. Take Indium. Color Therapy forthe ear: Alternate Blue and Green for 15 minutes each. Deficiency Signs: Earache Infection 70-90% from streptococcus pneumoniae (30-40%, can cause meningitis), haemophilusinfluenza(21%),andmoraxellacatarrhalis(l 2%)." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "Over 40% of all antibiotics are used in animal feeds, traces get into the human body altering our Immune reactions; and in 6 months, the same drug-resistant bacteria in the chickens is found in humans. Tetracyclines Are used to treat certain infections, and acne (not for colds, flu, or virus infections). Can cause permanently discolored teeth in children under age 8; discolored or darkened tongue in adults, stomach cramps or burning, diarrhea, vomiting; dizziness, unsteadiness (Minocycline), nausea; sore mouth or tongue; rectal or genital itching. Counters estrogen contraceptives." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "Toxic chemicals and drugs found in meat include synthetic hormones like DES; and estrogen which injured Puerto Rico children in theearly 1980's; antibiotics that create drug-resistant bacteria, like fatal salmonella; nitrofurans in pork and turkey are carcinogens banned in 1991; and toxic sulfa drugs in 4-5% of all pork tested. Lamb has 2-1 ratio of saturated to monounsaturated Fats, 2.2-3.4 grams per 3 oz.. Poultry Toxins are more concentrated in the giblets and in the dark meat from their stressful intake of antibiotics, chemicals, tranquilizers, and arsenic." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Pharmacologists developed new antibiotics, but new drug-resistant bacteria appeared. As new drugs were developed, new strains of bacteria arose. By developing new drugs to combat the new strains of bacteria pharmacologists thought they would be able to stay ahead. Slowly, scourges such as tuberculosis, bacterial pneumonia, septicemia (blood poisoning), syphilis, gonorrhea, and other bacterial infections were vanquished, or so it seemed. People still died from these ills, but not so many. In recent years disease-causing bacteria have been staging a powerful comeback." - Bruce Fife and Jon J. Kabara, The Healing Miracle of Coconut Oil (Get the book.)

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