Teenage time bomb?

[Shagrat]

BBC News - UK doctors advised gonorrhoea has turned drug resistant

seems to be happening with a number of diseases these days, becoming resistant to antibiotics (due to over-prescription imo).

heading back to victorian england? gonorrhoea, syphilis etc rampant, TB and cholera making a comeback

urk

 

[Tuthmes]

Another reason to stay home with your wife Shagrat

 

[old.Tohtori]

Inevitable really, those buggers will mutate and come back swinging....your penis...off.

 

[Scouse]

If chavs'd finish their course of antibiotics properly rather than stopping when they "feel better" (i.e. when their disease-ridden overly-easily-available genitals stop itching) then antibiotics would last a lot longer

 

[old.Tohtori]

If chavs'd finish their course of antibiotics properly rather than stopping when they "feel better" (i.e. when their disease-ridden overly-easily-available genitals stop itching) then antibiotics would last a lot longer

I wouldn't blame chavs that much, chances are that your parents were disease ridden hippie loveswingers too

 

[rynnor]

The general failure of antibiotics is probably inevitable - will be interesting to have huge wards of TB patients coughing themselves to a phlegmy death again but on the plus side it will solve the pensions problem.

 

[Ch3tan]

Surely the next stage when anti biotic's fail is genetically engineered virus's that target other bacteria and virus'?

 

[Shagrat]

Surely the next stage when anti biotic's fail is genetically engineered virus's that target other bacteria and virus'?

That's a good idea, theres no chance of that going horribly wrong.........

 

[Ch3tan]

You've watched far too much "outer limits", it's the obvious next step to keep us healthy.

 

[Tom]

The best way to stay healthy is not to get ill in the first place.

I've been giving serious thought to annual checkups now, the sort of thing where they test your blood for cancer, shove a finger up your arse, test blood sugar, all that stuff.

 

[Will]

Surely the next stage when anti biotic's fail is genetically engineered virus's that target other bacteria and virus'?

Once upon a time, the Eastern Bloc looked seriously into bacteriophages (viruses that attack bacteria) as an alternative to antibiotics. It may well be a potential option for the future.

 

[MYstIC G]

A better option would to stop people whoring it about.

 

[old.Tohtori]

A better option would to stop people whoring it about.

Are you saying you don't love me anymore?

 

[Ch3tan]

A better option would to stop people whoring it about.

Hide! It's the Catholic Church!

 

[Uncle Sick]

It's called natural selection. Every time I read about something that will kill stupid people, I imagine Charles Darwin clapping his hands in delight.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Every time i see human stupidity akinned to Darwins theories, i can hear him rolling in his grave

 

[Uncle Sick]

Every time i see human stupidity akinned to Darwins theories, i can hear him rolling in his grave

So you can hear him rotate? Must be close to your house then. Might want to grease that coffin a little.

 

[Vae]

So you can hear him rotate? Must be close to your house then. Might want to grease that coffin a little.

Seems appropriate:

Dilbert comic strip for 07/28/2004 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.