South Korea got a serious problem with extensive antibiotic resistance(XDR). In fact they got their own antibiotic crisis since around 2015 due to outbreaks of MERS(SARS-2003)SARS-CoV-1. Now they got more of the same with SARS-CoV-2, but crisis is related to anti-microbial resistance and mostly to antibiotic resistance due to our extensi…
South Korea got a serious problem with extensive antibiotic resistance(XDR). In fact they got their own antibiotic crisis since around 2015 due to outbreaks of MERS(SARS-2003)SARS-CoV-1. Now they got more of the same with SARS-CoV-2, but crisis is related to anti-microbial resistance and mostly to antibiotic resistance due to our extensive use of it to treat bacterial infections. More severe this time because thats how resistance develops over time due to us keep on using antibiotics.
There is a possibility that vaccines contribute to the death of people who have a resistant profile in their own bacterial flora as the vaccines are designed to attack this problem in the flora. The reason for attacking the resistance problem with vaccines, because antibiotics are last resort to cure bacterial infections... or only way. Covid-19 a beginning of our post-antibiotic era.
"2015 MERS in South Korea
The latest MERS outbreak began last month when an infected traveller returned to Korea after visiting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He visited four hospitals before he was diagnosed on May 20. By June 16, 154 people had been infected in South Korea and 19 had died.
The South Korean government was initially hesitant in its response but soon imposed major quarantine measures. More than 2,000 schools and universities were temporarily closed, and about 5,000 people were isolated in their homes or in hospitals in an attempt to control the spread of the epidemic.
The South Korean health authorities have been assiduous in identifying all the contacts of every case and isolating the contacts for 14 days – the maximum incubation period for the virus. Some have suggested the quarantine measures were more aggressive than required, but they have worked to slow the spread of the disease.
While MERS initially spread rapidly in South Korea, the fatality rate so far is about 10%, which is much lower than the 40% fatality rate of the Saudi outbreak."
note. Saudi outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS) happened 2011/2012, in fact it never stopped. and much of the pandemic spread is due to migration since then and of course increasing resistance over time.
South Korea got a serious problem with extensive antibiotic resistance(XDR). In fact they got their own antibiotic crisis since around 2015 due to outbreaks of MERS(SARS-2003)SARS-CoV-1. Now they got more of the same with SARS-CoV-2, but crisis is related to anti-microbial resistance and mostly to antibiotic resistance due to our extensive use of it to treat bacterial infections. More severe this time because thats how resistance develops over time due to us keep on using antibiotics.
There is a possibility that vaccines contribute to the death of people who have a resistant profile in their own bacterial flora as the vaccines are designed to attack this problem in the flora. The reason for attacking the resistance problem with vaccines, because antibiotics are last resort to cure bacterial infections... or only way. Covid-19 a beginning of our post-antibiotic era.
"2015 MERS in South Korea
The latest MERS outbreak began last month when an infected traveller returned to Korea after visiting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He visited four hospitals before he was diagnosed on May 20. By June 16, 154 people had been infected in South Korea and 19 had died.
The South Korean government was initially hesitant in its response but soon imposed major quarantine measures. More than 2,000 schools and universities were temporarily closed, and about 5,000 people were isolated in their homes or in hospitals in an attempt to control the spread of the epidemic.
The South Korean health authorities have been assiduous in identifying all the contacts of every case and isolating the contacts for 14 days – the maximum incubation period for the virus. Some have suggested the quarantine measures were more aggressive than required, but they have worked to slow the spread of the disease.
While MERS initially spread rapidly in South Korea, the fatality rate so far is about 10%, which is much lower than the 40% fatality rate of the Saudi outbreak."
note. Saudi outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(MERS) happened 2011/2012, in fact it never stopped. and much of the pandemic spread is due to migration since then and of course increasing resistance over time.