Antibiotic cross resistance mutation spreading rapidly - Page 1

The use of antibiotics in industrial farming as a feed and growth enhancer has borne strange fruit.

 

Researchers recently discovered a gene, called mcr-1, in pigs and people in China — a gene mutation that makes bacteria resistant to a last-resort antibiotic called colistin. The resistance has "epidemic potential," as the rate of transfer between bacteria is exceptionally high.

The mcr-1 gene has since been found in Malaysia and Portugal, and now it's also been found in five poultry samples in Denmark that were imported from Germany from 2012 to 2014. The gene was also detected in the blood of a Danish patient in 2015.¹¹

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Agriculture accounts for 80 percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. Nearly 25 million pounds of antibiotics are administered to livestock in the U.S. every year for purposes other than treating disease, such as making the animals grow bigger faster.

This mutation mcr-1 is serious because it creates bacterial resistance to most antibiotics and is not confined to one class of antibiotics or one type of bacteria. Simply put it also jumps from one bacteria to another quite easily. A person or animal can get mcr-1 into their system by exposure to a non disease causing pathogen and have it in their gut for instance not causing any problems. Then the animal or person gets an infection from a second bacterial source which causes illness. The mcr-1 mutation can jump to the disease causing pathogen from another non pathogenic bacteria in your body and ala-ca-dab-ra the disease causing pathogen is resistant to all antibiotics presently known.

This is now well recognized, infact its a national initiative to combat antibiotic resistance. How you can help is by not taking antibiotics for minor infections or where viral infect are suspected. Also the amt of abx given to animals need to bet down.

The mcr-1 bacterial mutation variant is new and is not well recognized or easy to diagnose. Usually they diagnose the mutation from the tissues of the dead and dying when antibiotics fail to control the infections. The use of antibiotics as an animal feed growth enhancer and the dangers that use presented was known 40 years ago. The livestock industry and the industrial food producers paid the chairman of the Senate committee responsible for the bill proposed to stop animal feeding of antibiotics for weight gain to never let the bill get out of committee. The Europeans have had much stricter laws for antibiotic use for 30 years. This mess is coming out of China and SE Asia where there are no laws for food safety which are enforced. Now it is too late!! The mcr-1 mutation will kill millions of humans and animals if it gets into an easily spread disease. Giving antibiotics to animals with bacterial infections with the mcr-1 mutation will likely make the animals and humans sicker. Before this mutation was found there were several strains of diseases resistant to many antibiotics but this mutation is poised to make even minor infections deadly and turn single infections into multiple infections with secondary and tertiary bacterial infections that will be resistant to all known modern antibiotics.

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Back in 1977, the agency proposed to withdraw approval for the use of several antibiotics in animal feed based on findings published in two notices posted in the Federal Register. The notices containing the findings have been listed in the Federal Register for more than three decades. But just before Christmas a few weeks ago, the FDA pulled the notices. Soon after it buried its 35-year-old proposal, the agency tried to have it both ways. On January 5, it proposed banning off-label uses of a class of antibiotics known as cephalosporins on healthy livestock. That sounds like a step in the right direction, and the agency got some favorable press, but keep in mind that cephalosporins account for less than 0.25 percent of all antibiotics used in agriculture.