NYT Op-Ed by FDA: "The EU and the WHO slammed us because we're liars and stupid."
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Subject: NYT Op-Ed by FDA: "The EU and the WHO slammed us because
we're liars and stupid."
Date: Apr 18, 2010 4:13 AM
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Yeah. That happened last September:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=link&linkname=pubmed_pubmed&uid=20338147&ordinalpos=1&log$=relatedarticles_seeall&logdbfrom=pubmed
The whole world turned away from American
lies and scientific incompetence. Six
months later, the IDSociety.org decided
to stop lying about vaccines and who
(livestock, hospital worker slobs and global
warming related new fungi) was responsible
for antibiotic resistAnce, after we had been
screaming about this very issue for over
10 years.
Not to mention because these evil vicious
lying crooks lost all the Pam3Cys-related
research and commercial opportunities:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PAM3CYS_APPLICATIONS.htm
due to their deliberate Lyme and LYMErix lies.
Ha-ha.
FOOLS!!!
Gimme a break.
And actually, the livestock industry is a
global *human* disaster, when we consider
the cost to feed these animals and their
resultant pollution, antibiotic resistance,
vs. relative protein value. The livestock
industry contributes greatly to human
disease in many ways. Everyone should
give up meat to the extent that they can
due to the human diseases they create,
alone.
Intelligent people (Europe and China) paid
attention to what Pam3Cys is/does, while
the German citizen and head of the NINDS
Lyme-MS group, Roland Martin,
http://www.actionlyme.org/MARTIN_NINDS_MS_CHRONIC_LYME.htm
went back home to Germany because he was sick
of American NIH and CDC lies on Lyme/MS.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/opinion/18kennedy.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
April 18, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor
Cows on Drugs
By DONALD KENNEDY
Stanford, Calif.
NOW that Congress has pushed through its complicated legislation to
reform the health insurance system, it could take one more simple step
to protect the health of all Americans. This one wouldn’t raise any
taxes or make any further changes to our health insurance system, so
it could be quickly passed by Congress with an outpouring of
bipartisan support. Or could it?
More than 30 years ago, when I was commissioner of the United States
Food and Drug Administration, we proposed eliminating the use of
penicillin and two other antibiotics to promote growth in animals
raised for food. When agribusiness interests persuaded Congress not to
approve that regulation, we saw firsthand how strong politics can
trump wise policy and good science.
Even back then, this nontherapeutic use of antibiotics was being
linked to the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria that
infect humans. To the leading microbiologists on the F.D.A.’s advisory
committee, it was clearly a very bad idea to fatten animals with the
same antibiotics used to treat people. But the American Meat Institute
and its lobbyists in Washington blocked the F.D.A. proposal.
In 2005, one class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones, was banned in the
production of poultry in the United States. But the total number of
antibiotics used in agriculture is continuing to grow. According to
the Union of Concerned Scientists, 70 percent of this use is in
animals that are healthy but are vulnerable to transmissible diseases
because they live in crowded and unsanitary conditions.
In testimony to Congress last summer, Joshua Sharfstein, the principal
deputy commissioner of the F.D.A., estimated that 90,000 Americans die
each year from bacterial infections they acquire in hospitals. About
70 percent of those infections are caused by bacteria that are
resistant to at least one powerful antibiotic.
That’s why the American Medical Association, the American Academy of
Pediatrics, the American Pharmacists Association, the Infectious
Diseases Society of America, the American Public Health Association
and the National Association of County and City Health Officials are
urging Congress to phase out the nontherapeutic use in livestock of
antibiotics that are important to humans.
Antibiotic resistance is an expensive problem. A person who cannot be
treated with ordinary antibiotics is at risk of having a large number
of bacterial infections, and of needing to be treated in the hospital
for weeks or even months. The extra costs to the American health care
system are as much as $26 billion a year, according to estimates by
Cook County Hospital in Chicago and the Alliance for the Prudent Use
of Antibiotics, a health policy advocacy group.
Agribusiness argues — as it has for 30 years — that livestock need to
be given antibiotics to help them grow properly and keep them free of
disease. But consider what has happened in Denmark since the late
1990s, when that country banned the use of antibiotics in farm animals
except for therapeutic purposes. The reservoir of resistant bacteria
in Danish livestock shrank considerably, a World Health Organization
report found. And although some animals lost weight, and some
developed infections that needed to be treated with antimicrobial
drugs, the benefits of the rule exceeded those costs.
It’s 30 years late, but Congress should now pass the Preservation of
Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would ban industrial
farms from using seven classes of antibiotics that are important to
human health unless animals or herds are ill, or pharmaceutical
companies can prove the drugs’ use in livestock does not harm human
health.
The pharmaceutical industry and agribusiness face the difficult
challenge of developing antimicrobials that work specifically against
animal infections without undermining the fight against bacteria that
cause disease in humans. But we don’t have the luxury of waiting any
longer to protect those at risk of increasing antibiotic resistance.
Donald Kennedy, a former commissioner of the United States Food and
Drug Administration, is a professor emeritus of environmental science
at Stanford.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci