Drug-resistant Super-Bug Found in Three States - Worthy News

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A new gene that makes a certain bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics has U.S. scientists and doctors alarmed.

So far, this new super-bug has caused people to become sick in three states in the U.S as well as Canada. The bug is also starting to pop up all over the world.

The gene has mostly been found in a bacteria that causes urinary infections.

All of the known cases seem to have been contracted by people traveling to India for medical procedures.

Medical experts are worried that people will continue to spread the bacteria via airplane all over the world.

Scientists have feared a super-bug like this one. Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise, and there aren't currently many new vaccines being developed.

Doctors warn that good hygiene is important because the bacteria can spread hand-to-mouth.

The amount of deaths caused by this new super-bug is unknown.

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Medical Schools Can't Keep Up

clipped from online.wsj.com The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors. Experts warn there won't be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients. Doctors' groups and medical schools had hoped that the new health-care law, passed in March, would increase the number of funded residency slots, but such a provision didn't make it into the final bill.

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If more people today would realize why socialized medicine is a very bad idea as many have already been through this before. This speech will help many more understand what it is.

clipped from www.youtube.com From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine clipped from www.conservative.org Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate. We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

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