List: We need sound research to help us improve CS effectiveness. According to this MD, antibiotics are increasingly failing to protect us from infectious disease. Roger
Subj: Re: SV: [healthfraud] general Date: 6/25/01 7:18:40 AM EST From: [email protected] (Jeff Utz, M.D.) To: [email protected] In 1997, with antibiotics, pneumonia and influenza killed about 84,000 people. HIV over 16,000. Septicimia 18,000. That is about 7% of all deaths that year. Infection is a major complication of surgery. It is a major complication of cancer and cancer treatment. It is a major complication of diabetes. Some patients with heart disease take antibiotics everytime they see a dentist. Kids and adults without spleens or with sickle-cell anemia run a major risk of pneumococcal disease. There are major problems with antibiotic resistance. Most kids suffer from ear infections. The CDC estimates that 76,000,000 get sick from food borne illnesses. Influenza, rotavirus and RSV each sicken and hospitalize thousands of kids every year. ABout 100,000 to 135,000 people are hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia every year. And about 30% of these patients have bacteria resistant to antibitoics. And about 200,000 people in hospitals get a Staph infection. About 4 million people have already been infected with Hepatitis C, about 80% of whom have chronic infection causing about 8,000 to 10,000 deaths each year. About 1.25 million people with chronic Hepatitis B infection. And influenza gets many adults into hosptials too. Let;s talk about the economic cost: The cost of ear infections, diarrhea, hosptial visits for influenze, RSV, AIDS, etc., is enormous. THe cost of caring for someone who has HIV infection is like $50,000 / year just for the drugs. And billions are spent on vaccines every year. Let us not forget about the cost in terms of work or school time lost, including that of parents.The only infectious disease that has been beaten is smallpox. Sorry, but the infectious diseases, together responsible for over 7% of the deaths in the US, and major expenditures. And antibiotic resistance is a major problem. Sorry, but to say that infectious disease has been beaten is clearly an overstatement. And wrong. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
