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Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/4/2008 10:18:11 AM

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LONDON (Reuters) - Disinfectant wipes routinely used in hospitals may actually spread drug-resistant bacteria rather than kill the dangerous infections, British researchers said on Tuesday.

While the wipes killed some bacteria, a study of two hospitals showed they did not get them all and could transfer the so-called superbugs to other surfaces, Gareth Williams, a microbiologist at Cardiff University, said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080603/hl_nm/infection_wipes_dc

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RE: Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/4/2008 11:26:20 AM

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Time to start using bacteriophages.

Cleve Cartmill already mentioned using phages against bacterial infection in his 1942 sf story "Some day we'll find you".

There used to be a bacteriophage bank in the Soviet Union. (I do not know what happened to it.)

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RE: Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/4/2008 12:16:20 PM

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a couple of years ago, we got a memo at a managers meeting (im a cafeteria manager at a school) that showed the use of anti-bacterial soaps has done more harm than good. good old ivory soap and warm water and washing for the proper amount of time(sing twinkle twinkle or abc song 2 times), and making sure to wash all areas of the hands is the best defense.

it was stated that the anti-bacterial soaps kill the good bacteria, the ones that actually assist us in fighting the really bad ones. they changed our soaps to a foaming, non bacterial soap right after this.

i dont have the memo here to refer to, but i did stop buying anti-bacterial anything after that. i know our govt is screwed up sometimes, but i decided id believe the cdc on this one.

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RE: Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/4/2008 5:28:39 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

LONDON (Reuters) - Disinfectant wipes routinely used in hospitals may actually spread drug-resistant bacteria rather than kill the dangerous infections, British researchers said on Tuesday.

While the wipes killed some bacteria, a study of two hospitals showed they did not get them all and could transfer the so-called superbugs to other surfaces, Gareth Williams, a microbiologist at Cardiff University, said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080603/hl_nm/infection_wipes_dc

LOL; my brother and his whole immediate family subscribe to the belief that anti-bacterial wipes, soap and so forth for the consumer are a big conspiracy by the medical establishment to weaken O/our immune systems and make U/us spend more and more on medical care. Really...they actually believe this is a conspiracy in fact.

Cyberdude, i'm not really surprised by the outcome of the study. Hospital-acquired infections have been on the rise and have been growing more and more virelent; the personal injury lawyers here now actively advertise for such cases.

You'd think S/someone would have had the sense to test hospital anti-bacterial wipes to see whether they were up to snuff. Gheesh.

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RE: Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/4/2008 11:41:49 PM

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LOL; my brother and his whole immediate family subscribe to the belief that anti-bacterial wipes, soap and so forth for the consumer are a big conspiracy by the medical establishment to weaken O/our immune systems and make U/us spend more and more on medical care. Really...they actually believe this is a conspiracy in fact.

hmmm are you insinuating that you think they are not? ~slowly backing away~

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RE: Antibacterial wipes doing more harm than good? - 6/5/2008 8:00:11 AM

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Spelling lesson : There are two accepted spellings for conspiracy;

c-o-o-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n

or

p-a-r-t-n-e-r-s-h-i-p

You might want to add this to your spell check database.

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