In the United States since 1985 there have been 285,000 cases of TB.
Several tuberculosis strains are resistant to all antibiotics.
Last year in Cincinnati, there was an 838% increase above the yearly
average
in whooping cough among children who had been vaccinated.
Infectious disease speciallist Dr. Thomas Beam told Newsyeek Magazine,
"We know that at some point staph and strep bacteria will become
resistant to vancomycin
the last known effective antibiotic aginst them."
Continuous use of antibiotics as is perscribed for conditions like Lyme
disease cause a severe form of yeast infection . The antibiotics are
stoped
long enough to get the yeast under control only to have the Lyme disease
symptoms return and so the rollercoaster ride starts over.
In 1994 there was an issue of Newsweek featuring a six page cover story,
"Antibiotics, The end of Miracle Drugs?" According to the
article, "The rise
of drug-resistant germs is unparalled in recorded history.
Penicillin and tetracycline lost there power over staph back in the
1950's and 60's.
Methicillin-resestant staph is now common in hospitals and nursing homes."
The September, 1995 issue of Time Magazine featured an article entiled
"Revenge of the Killer Microbes." "Faced with AIDS, and an
ever increasing number of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, doctors were forced to admit that the
medical profession was
actually retreating in the battle aginst germs. In 1992 13,330 hospital
patients died of infections that resisted every drug doctors tried."
Modern antibiotics only kill some bacteria and fungi - not viruses, such
as
Flu and common cold or more threatining AIDS, HIV, cancer, chicken pox,
mumps,
measles, smallpox, yellow fever, rabies, parvo, viral pneumonia,
poliomyelitis,
infantile poralysis, fever blisters, encephalitis, herpes, and hepatitus.