Stomach Bug Mutates Into Medical Mystery

This is my take on that.
1. What are they trying to sell?

2.How many casualties have there been? Thousands of people die every year from complications arising from prescribed drugs but let twenty die from avian flu and suddenly there are banner headlines about epidemics.

3.Why is there no focus on the food supply? No mention of a pssible connection to genetically modified food or any other tampering done to food. Just what is the objective of this objective piece of journalism?

Superbugs and superweeds are the natural evolution of the ecology, attempting to balance itself, overruling human and other influences.

I was involved in the early days of the chemical soaked, corporate, "Green Revolution" in England from 1948 to 55. We started spraying our fruit trees once, or twice in the winter, but by the time I left, two of us did virtually nothing else, but spraying with new and more deadly chemicals, as the bugs mutated and became resistant to those from the previous year, already 50 years ago. Then they killed thousands of farmworkers, including my old friends.

Today, with constant medications pumped into people, the irresponsible use of antibiotics not only by the medical professions, but also in meat raising, is creating a completely new ecological system that contributes to widepspread, major illnesses, like our cancer and other epidemics and pandemics.

There was an interesting and alarming exchange on the pages of the Vancouver Sun, between the deans of the Pharmaceutical and Agricultural departments of UBC about 26-27 years ago. The pharmacist accurately predicted that the constan, and overuse of antibiotics in agriculture will ultimately backfire, because people, who eat the meats will be so overloaded with them that they'll become useless.

The agriculture guy maintained that the chemicalization of food animals is necessary for "efficient food production".
In other words, the interests of the already then widespread chemical, agribiz corporations, feedlots, now in virtual control of the global food supply.

We grow our organic foods, but in the winter we sometimes have to buy supermarket vegetables and fruits. Just last week we bought a couple of plastic bags of apples, which stank up our storage room with the smell of some foul chemical and will most likely end up feeding the chickens. The same for some bananas, like DelMonte, just reeking of chemicals. The canned goods on the shelves are almost like a drug store, with lists of chemicals enough to build bombs.

So, what the hell is the surprise about, when people are becoming sicker with more unknown and new illnesses, and epidemics, that didn't exist before ? They're, like our cancers, for all practical purposes manmade, but thank goodness, in many ways contribute to our glorious GDP figures.

And just wait what the results of the GM foods is going to be.

Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

If you want to kill the bug, take Black Walnut.

Good questions.

I am sure one of objectives is promoting hysteria over "bugs" to sell yet more pharmaceuticals. Curious they never suggest naturopathic options.

Among the banner headlines one finds claims of mutating viruses. Supposedly tamiflu fails not because it is useless if not dangerous, but becaue the virus mutated. Viruses can't mutant in response to pharmaceuticals. Viruses are not bacteria. Most journalism on health issues is also not journalism.

The explanation that makes the most sense to me is this, the poisons kill the bugs that are susceptible to them. The bugs that are not susceptible eventually become the only bugs left and a population explosion occurs. Then a new batch of poisons are applied and the cycle repeats itself. All the animals that relied on the bugs for food have their populations decimated because their food chain is poisoned. This causes a further increase in the bug population and agribz's response is to increase the amount of poison (nerve gases etc) spewed about the environment. You are probably right about the bugs not mutating in such a way as to become resistant to nerve gases and other poisons. It sounds more like an agribiz wet dream whereby they are exonerated from charges of poisoning mother nature because mother nature mutates her children so as not to be affected by by the obsolete wartime chemical concoctions.