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The article doesn’t say how they recognized the bacteria was from Japan. Was it eating with wood chopsticks?
This story is going to give WJK an orgasm.
#1 – No, silly. The Japanese bacteria attacked and betrayed the Korean bacteria. The Korean bacteria always said the Japanese bacteria was two-faced.
Give me a f’ing break here! Now Koreans
are victims on a microbiotic level?????
What the F___ is wrong with some of these
“educated” K. dorks?
Maybe Europeans should get p’od about China
giving them the damn plague 650 years ago?
Start protesting, in favor of compensation
for the loss of half of the population?
What a f’ing load!
Let’s have all those micro-organisms wave the
flag on “3″: 1 . . . . 2. . . . . . . . .
Wait a minute, bacteria lives in colonies, so the Japanese bacteria has COLONIZED Korean bacteria!
It also worships bacteria convicted of war crimes at the E.coli Shrine
…I thought everything Japanese originally came from Korea?
#4 Michael
Yes, the E. Kami spirits.
Other Chosun Ilbo headlines:
“Korean Scientists Isolate ‘Han’ Gene”
“Korean Scientists Clone Self-Basting Dog”
They obviously traced the genetic material from the bacteria to a strain that is already in Japan. One could ask did it originate from Japan or elsewhere.
That bug will wreck havoc with treatment in Korea because there is so little lab work done for seemingly routine infections and without identifying this bug first, BEFORE treatment, people are going to die or lose limbs from this wicked bug because between the time a mis-diagnosis is made and the initial treatment fails, the infection will spread to the point where it can not easily be treated.
As any informed doctor knows, the only way to prevent this is to identify the bacteria, checking to see if the infection is MRSA. Only then can proper treatment be made.
Another big part of the problem is that doctors in Korea (like in other countries) over-prescribe antibiotics and people do not finish their courses, so the bugs grow more drug-resistant.
And the folks turning this biomed story into a nationalistic issue is who now?
#9, I think I read that the over-prescription of antibiotics has gone down significantly. I’ll try to find the link.
Maybe if every single sneeze wasn’t greeted with “You need to go to the hospital!” antibiotic-resistant viruses wouldn’t be forming and spreading so quickly here…
Back during the early ’90s in Korea, you could go to practically any pharmacy and buy antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription. And perhaps the bigger problem today, rather than people not finishing their course of antibiotics since Koreans are big on taking medication when sick, is that doctors usually only prescribe a third to a half of a course at a time, so people don’t go back if they feel better such that the remaining bacteria develop resistance.
My thoughts are that the bacteria likely came from, or through, Japan to Korea (this can actually be differentiated from a similar strain coming from elsewhere) but became drug resistant in Korea. This is because, if anything, I would trust the Japanese to be more exact in following procedures properly (medical or otherwise); however, if anybody from Occidentalism asks, tell them that I’m accusing Japan of Unit 731-style germ warfare in their effort to reclaim Dokdo and that I’ll be throwing dead pheasants at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to protest.
Yes NES is right. Korea must be in the top ten countries for destroying antibiotic effectiveness. Giving 3 day treatments, which will allow someone to feel better, but only put bacteria into remission, and allow them to re-grow with immunities. Is that extra pay check when they come back or get sick again so important?
(However, I actually liked the idea of no prescriptions on a freedom/anti-monopoly level, but that’s just my politics, I can see the argument for them.)
so what? It’s treatable. Vanco or Linezolid.
actually, when I was growing up in Korea, 9pm tv news made liberal note of the fact that Japanese encephalitis virus was from Japan.
as a kid, I thought Japanese mosquitoes hopped the God made boundary painted blue, and with an evil purpose, bit innocent Koreans to cause Japanese encephalitis.
I dreaded the shot vaccine I took, and i thought without the vaccine, I would die from this evil Japanese disease. Not true.
PNAC is a top journal. Regardless of the outcome that caught your eye, these guys did some work to get published.
Elgin is wrong. Once you walk into the ER, they start vancomycin, then wait around for cultures to switch.
i think in the US, the poor people who walk in with infections and leave against medical advice, and come back with the same infection, now resistant to the former antibiotics, are major contributors to antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Antibiotics don’t work on viruses.
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