Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistant bacteria will be a problem on the Indian sub-continent. The following are two examples of why:
1. I went to a pharmacy yesterday and told them I had a cold. The pharmacist, not knowing what I had, gave me three different options of antibiotics to take. If every cold is treated that way, resistance could happen.
2. At the village stores (like bodegas and the place where I ate the dirty sweets) f you tell them you have diarrhea or a cold, or anything, they give you one of two types of antibiotics that they have. These aren't even pharmacists, these people know nothing about medicine! If you treat all diseases with only two antibiotics....it could lead to resistance.
I am sweating profusely right now. The electricity is off again, for no apparent reason, and the internet shop is on a generator. I am going to go carve stone now......followed by the beach and soccer. Hooray!
1. I went to a pharmacy yesterday and told them I had a cold. The pharmacist, not knowing what I had, gave me three different options of antibiotics to take. If every cold is treated that way, resistance could happen.
2. At the village stores (like bodegas and the place where I ate the dirty sweets) f you tell them you have diarrhea or a cold, or anything, they give you one of two types of antibiotics that they have. These aren't even pharmacists, these people know nothing about medicine! If you treat all diseases with only two antibiotics....it could lead to resistance.
I am sweating profusely right now. The electricity is off again, for no apparent reason, and the internet shop is on a generator. I am going to go carve stone now......followed by the beach and soccer. Hooray!
posted by Jon at 01:42
3 Comments:
Its like that in other places as well. When leah was in Spain she could go into the pharmacy and get antibiotics. The whole world will end up with the problem of antibiotic resistance and then we will go with the dinasaurs! R U sick again?
Oh, I meant to add about other post, wht not contact those girls from the Newsweek article and see if they are looking to set up new markets. Or what about that Fair World Trade?
Sounds like you are getting quite the education - and education is what is lacking - both in India and in the US - the key to improving the human condition depends on education. Hope you are not getting sick.
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