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Reemergence of Tuberculosis, now DRUG RESISTANT!

by funklord

In South Africa, Tuberculosis has been evolving constantly.  It is a bacterial lung affliction that that is second only to HIV in the amount of people killed annually.  And that was when the HAD effective antibiotics.  It isn’t that the current antibiotics don’t work well.  They have been “not working well” for years now.  The phrase that is being used is “virtually untreatable”.  In extreme cases, years of hospitalization are required, with a harsh drug regimen.

I wondered why this only happens in Third World countries, and not here, then I realized that our advanced medical breakthroughs eliminate he disease here.  Unfortunately through that elimination process, the the diseases evolve and become stronger.  When they spread to other parts of the world, they are bigger, stronger, faster, and sometimes a new disease strain entirely.

The 2013 Disease Countdown

1.  The 2013 FLU season
2.  The Norovirus (Stomach Flu)
3.  Typhoid
4.  Saudi Arabian SARS (Technically started in 2012)
5.  Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Popcorn Lung? That’s too silly a name for something serious.

by funklord

Popcorn Lung.  The savoriest of all afflictions.  Yes it’s real.  Apparently if you inhale the artificial butter flavoring (Diacetyl) for long enough (in this case, it was 3 times a day for ten years), you can collapse your lungs around 50%.  We are talking about incidental inhalation during consumption (eating).  This is CRAZY!  How can something so dangerous (harmful) make it past food trials?

The reason this made the news is because the man afflicted successfully sued for 7 million dollars. He took these three companies to court:  Gilster-Mary Lee Corp., and Dillon Companies Inc., (the manufacturer) and The Kroger Co. (The supermarket).  You know what tastes the same but is will not cause lung cancer?  Buttered Popcorn flavored Jelly Bellys.  Those things are amazing.

Anyway, guess I have to do an update:

1.  Pertussis – “Whooping Cough”
2.  Fatal rash caused by staph infection
3.  “Flesh Eating Bacteria”, also a staph infection
4.  The Bubonic Plague
5.  Ebola
6.  Capnocytophaga – Woman lost hands and feet from dog saliva
7.  Untreatable Gonorrhea
8.  Kid died from a brain destroying ameoba, found in a lake
9.  West Nile Virus
10.  Hantavirus
11.  Rabies
12.  Typhus
13.  Legionnaires Disease
14.  New Jersey Superbug
15.  Popcorn Lung