Antibiotic-Resistance DNA Showing Up in Drinking Water

[nosmokes]

The way we allow the corporations to give us food like materials is gonna kill us if we don't stand up and do something about it. The signs are all around us. We must get back to real food from real farmers.
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original-foxnews

Antibiotic-Resistance DNA Showing Up in Drinking Water

Thursday, November 02, 2006

By Charles Q. Choi

DNA that helps make germs resistant to medicines may increasingly be appearing as a pollutant in the water.

This DNA was found "even in treated drinking water," researcher Amy Pruden, an environmental engineer at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, told LiveScience.

The spread of this DNA could exacerbate the already growing problem of drug resistance among potentially infectious microbes.

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Diseases once considered eradicated, such as tuberculosis, are making alarming comebacks. Currently, more than two million Americans are infected each year by resistant germs, and 14,000 die as a result, the World Health Organization reports.

"I personally have known people with antibiotic-resistant infections, and they can be very scary," Pruden said.
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1. Doesn't surprise me. We have such a paranoid ignorant population pumping antibiotics into soap

and mousepads and every other fucking thing, of course newly mutated resistant shit is showing up everywhere.

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2. Yay for my alma mater for discovering this. But sad, too.

[morningglory]

3. We quit buying the bottled "spring" water from Culligan, because of the

plastic bottles, transportation, the weight of the jugs (we are aging, and I do not want to be in the newspaper, found dead under a jug of water on my back porch). We bought the $250.00 ceramic filter in a silver thingy, that accepts tap water and filters out guinea worm, e coli, and I hope chlorine. The company is 100 yrs old, bought the filter device from Lehman catalog. We chose it because it has no plastic parts,and does not use heat/steam or electricity to distill the water. What do you think?