Supercharged Tuberculosis, Made in India

In Vancouver we're busy breeding TB in the downtown east side.

Some years ago the homosexuals lobbied to end the routine screening of travelers and immigrants into the USA because they said the practice discriminated against AIDS patients and kept them out of the USA.



Now forgive me if the schadenfreude will be rich as the demographic most vulnerable to this drug resistant form of TB will be the homosexual men who have AIDS and are using drugs to keep it in check.

Basically racing against the clock with respect to anti-bacterials. Trying to stay one step ahead of the bugs.

Speaking of that topic one of my coworkers (a researcher for UC Davis) told me that one of the concerns with this version of TB is that it *may* be at least partially transmissible by mosquitoes.

It's not the drugs, it's the Doctors prescribing them incorrectly and the patients taking them incorrectly.

I still think the overuse of antibacterial soaps and washes which only kill 99% of bacteria which would lead me to think that the surviving 1% is somewhat more resilient. Thus making the strain become more resilient over time.

Plus the amount used on the animals we eat.

It's a similar scenario with antibiotics. In the article, the girl was prescribed a bunch of different antibiotics, and never completed a single regime. So the resulting TB infection became adapted to all them.

Detergents themselves destroy cellular tissue of bacteria, so there really isn't an 'immunity' to build up with soap alone.