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When Antibiotics Failed, She Found a Natural Enemy of Superbug Bacteria to Save Husband’s Life
By Judy Cole – Jul 23, 2022
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Tom Patterson was dying in a U.S. hospital from a massive bacterial infection he’d contracted while traveling in Egypt. Doctors gave him a prognosis of days.
Fortunately, his wife, Steffanie Strathdee, happened to be an infectious disease epidemiologist, who was not going to give up searching for the needle in a haystack required to cure him.
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However, with more than 10 million-trillion-trillion unique phages on the planet, identifying a handful that specifically fed on the Acinetobacter baumannii afflicting Tom was a task akin to finding one tiny star in a huge galaxy.
The deadly superbug is nicknamed Iraqibacter because wounded combat troops sometimes contracted it in Iraq—and it ranks No. 1 on the World Health Organization’s list of dangerous pathogens. Undaunted, Strathdee quickly began networking to get Tom the treatment he so desperately needed to survive.
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Help from Texas A&M, the FDA, and the U.S. Navy
Her first task was appealing to scientists to track down and purify samples of phages that fed on the specific strain of bacteria that was killing Tom. Texas A&M University biochemist Ryland Young, who’s been tracking phages for more than four and a half decades, was eager to help. Researchers from the U.S. Navy soon signed up for the mission as well.
Strathdee’s plea to the FDA to fast-track a “compassionate use” order allowing doctors to implement an experimental treatment was granted in record time. A scant three weeks later, Tom was injected with his first intravenous dose of a purified “phage cocktail” from the team at Texas A&M. Seeing no negative effects, he received his second IV dose, courtesy of the U.S. Navy, two days later.
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Very impressive effortt by this woman.
And I often don’t have good things to say about the Gooferment, its politicians and bureaucrats, or bureaucracies in general. Here the stars aligned and everyone perform far above expectations to save the man’s life.
From the movie “Master & Commader”, “an extra ration of rum for these men” and women.
The effort be all was nothing less that “heroic” and I don’t apply that adjective often if at all.
God Bless All of them.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Some of what is screamed out in public is truly “ABSURD”
Tuesday, May 10, 2022https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/05/03/the-age-of-the-absurd/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEN6lkVYy7Qeh_Yxo1_IRnzTZh9sNXe5H5seFIcbQsvr7Z8zogCtsbhx1d46UtUYZHC-dVZwkTtAGTcWtkcbm8GlmtJe0Y2Rk5gQ5FDRojrJBTbwp5
The Age of the Absurd
Dennis Prager / @DennisPrager / May 03, 2022
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No. 11: America is systemically racist.
The manifest absurdity of this claim is easily demonstrated. In the past decades, more than 3 million black people have immigrated to America from Africa and the Caribbean. And probably tens of millions more would like to. Are all these people fools—choosing to move to a systemically racist country? Are they ignorant—unaware that America is systemically racist?
The non-absurd know the answers: All these blacks are neither fools nor ignorant. They know how lucky they are to move to America—because this country is so tolerant and so overwhelmingly nonracist. People don’t move to countries that hate them. No Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s.
We live in the Age of the Absurd. The only question is, why? I think I know the answer and will discuss it in a future column. In the meantime, share these 11 absurdities with friends and relatives, especially with those who actually think they make sense.
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I remember a news clip from the corporate media doing a story about how the “evil Republicans” were slowing immigration and that there were long lines at out embassies seeking permission. One fellow in the line, who had been waiting for days, when asked why, replied: “America has fat poor people.” To me, that was the best answer I’d ever heard.
I see immigrants from India opening all sorts of businesses because it’s easy compared to the corruption in India. I see Oriental immigrants whose children seem to succeed in Gooferment Skrules against the odds. I see Mexican immigrants working their butts off at hard labor jobs and proudly showing off their new work truck for their efforts.
“Systematically racist” is something I don’t see. Pockets of idiots who either can’t or won’t try — of all races — seem to seek to blame “society”.
I will stipulate that the Gooferment “welfare” is designed to keep people poor and it is hard to break the cycle. But many do.
Let’s get the Gooferment out of the way.
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