Reply #75: So, how is this any different than other industrial accidents? [View All]

[hunter]

No really, I want to know...

Three young men, John Byrnes, age 25, Richard McKinley, age 22, and Richard Legg, age 25, were working with a dangerous machine. There was an accident and they died. Their bodies were contaminated with dangerous chemicals.

Bad things like this happen ALL OF THE TIME.

If you really want to see some scary stuff, check out antibiotic resistant "hospital acquired" infections.

Talk about your "chain reactions!"

I got this from:

http://www.consumersunion.org/campaigns/learn_more/001544indiv.html

• According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 90,000 Americans die each year from hospital- acquired infections. More people die from hospital-acquired infections than from auto accidents and homicides combined.

• An additional 1.9 million or so get an infection that does not cause death, but depending on the type of infection, these patients spend from one to 30 extra days in the hospital getting treated. About 5-10% of hospital patients get a hospital-acquired infection.

This problem is almost entirely the result of our indiscriminate use of antibiotics.