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World's scariest video

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 12:42 pm
by Tunnelcat
Or at least it should be. This is the bacterium e-coli, growing, mutating and then advancing into a succession of more and more concentrated sections of antibiotics on a very large petri dish. We're doomed.


Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 6:48 pm
by Nightshade
Tunnelcat wrote:Or at least it should be. This is the bacterium e-coli, growing, mutating and then advancing into a succession of more and more concentrated sections of antibiotics on a very large petri dish. We're doomed.

Nice to see that they're purposefully pushing bugs to mutate and survive as superbugs even faster than they are now. :P

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 9:30 pm
by Tunnelcat
It's no different than doctors giving out antibiotics like candy whenever some mother brings in their sick kid and wants him or her "cured" no matter what or when a farmer constantly doses his cattle with antibiotics as a "preventative" measure. At least the e-coli in that petri dish can easily be destroyed with bleach. That's not so easy of a task when that same "evolution" happens within the human body. That petri dish experiment shows us that we're now in trouble when it comes to trying to control harmful bacteria. :wink:

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:01 pm
by Spidey
I don’t think that video is scary, it’s just a demonstration of what we have known for a long time.

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:18 pm
by Tunnelcat
Spidey wrote:I don’t think that video is scary, it’s just a demonstration of what we have known for a long time.
You mean the thought of an antibiotic resistant super strain of e-coli running rampant through your body and the docs have no drugs that will stop it doesn't scare you? How about antibiotic resistant MRSA? :o

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:34 pm
by Spidey
Well yea, I guess that is pretty scary...just not that video.

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:01 pm
by Tunnelcat
You DO have to imagine that bug residing inside your body doing what it's doing on the petri dish.... :wink:

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:15 pm
by Spidey
I try not to imagine what goes on inside my body.

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 4:35 pm
by Tunnelcat
Next time you're really sick, you WILL. :wink:

Re: World's scariest video

Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:07 pm
by Spidey
:lol: "next time" will have to get in line.