Bacteria resistant to all drugs spreading widely in India

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Man, that sucks. Another pandemic! Damn those birds, and damn those Indians!
 

DrPizza

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A friend of mine just returned from a very rural part of India. She commented how filthy it was there, about her food poisoning, how India's version of a 4 star hotel would probably be condemned over here, etc. Eating with hands instead of using a spoon, no toilet paper & didn't use soap when cleaning dishes, etc.

But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.
 

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A friend of mine just returned from a very rural part of India. She commented how filthy it was there, about her food poisoning, how India's version of a 4 star hotel would probably be condemned over here, etc. Eating with hands instead of using a spoon, no toilet paper & didn't use soap when cleaning dishes, etc.

But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.

hahaha, what the hell. how fast is indian broadband.
 

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hahaha, what the hell. how fast is indian broadband.

They need it for all those call centres who phone me at supper time. :rolleyes:

I'm not surprised. The Ganges is supposedly like an open sewer but you see people bathing in it, and drinking it. :eek:
 

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This is just one example of many. Acinetobacter baumannii has been a real problem for soldiers at the Army Hospitals. The problem is a combination of how easy it is for bacteria to mutate to defend against many of these antibiotics, and how we use them clinically. Every time someone stops using an antibiotic before an infection is totally eliminated, they make resistance more likely.
 

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A friend of mine just returned from a very rural part of India. She commented how filthy it was there, about her food poisoning, how India's version of a 4 star hotel would probably be condemned over here, etc. Eating with hands instead of using a spoon, no toilet paper & didn't use soap when cleaning dishes, etc.

But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.

Don't tell Spidey!
 

Orsorum

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Yeah I saw this today, too. Dammit dammit dammit. Of ALL the times to come to India. I'm here in Kochi for 3 months on rotation, but am following the basic rules regarding filtered drinking water, only eating from recommended restaurants, etc.
 

Juddog

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hahaha, what the hell. how fast is indian broadband.

On top of that the way that cellphones are used in India are wildly different in ways than in America. In America, the providers like Verizon have everything locked down; in India you'll commonly see people sharing MP3's over the bluetooth connections from one phone to another and using them as portable media players.

The copyright laws in India are also a lot different than in the US in terms of enforcement.
 

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But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.

What I find comical is why nobody understands why this makes perfect sense:
High-density countries allow for highly-economical (and affordable) expansion for the communications industry. In the states, we can only see it to a degree, at the local level; high-density metropolitan regions will often have the fastest internet speeds, density over a large region means some companies can afford to expand the footprint of newer technology.

But this cannot be supported when the high-density regions are so far apart and relatively small in comparison to the larger geographical footprint of less-populated regions.
The U.S. and Canadian communications industry is forever going to lag that of the industries across Europe, Japan, China and India.

It sucks too - we have no hope to ever be at the same level as those nations. When we get to where they are now, they will just be moving to the next revolution in communications.
 

busydude

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A friend of mine just returned from a very rural part of India. She commented how filthy it was there, about her food poisoning, how India's version of a 4 star hotel would probably be condemned over here, etc. Eating with hands instead of using a spoon, no toilet paper & didn't use soap when cleaning dishes, etc. But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.

I had the exact opposite experience. I lived in India for the first 21 years of my life and never suffered from food poisoning, a week after landing in the US, BOOM, a case of e.coli infection.

OTOH, A few of my Indian friends have suffered from auto immune disease after coming to the US because, the always active WBC's now have nothing else to do.
 

Vonkhan

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A friend of mine just returned from a very rural part of India. She commented how filthy it was there, about her food poisoning, how India's version of a 4 star hotel would probably be condemned over here, etc. Eating with hands instead of using a spoon, no toilet paper & didn't use soap when cleaning dishes, etc.

But, she commented that the broadband access even in some remote part of India was better than the broadband access she has in her local city.

1. Rural India is usually very clean - most Indian villages don't tolerate filth. Strange ...
2. Food poisoning - pretty common, sadly. I was lucky enough to have only gotten jaundice and not the really fun cholera.
3. Hotels - totally hit or miss. The upscale ones are usually really good though.
4. Eating with your hands - do you not WASH your hands before you eat? I know where my hands have been - do you know where that spoon has been?
5. No toilet paper - given Indian spices, it's a fire hazard in the restroom :D
6. No soap while cleaning the dishes - I've seen villagers use ash and coconut fiber to clean vessels. Not sure what the logic behind that is ...
 

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What I find comical is why nobody understands why this makes perfect sense:
High-density countries allow for highly-economical (and affordable) expansion for the communications industry. In the states, we can only see it to a degree, at the local level; high-density metropolitan regions will often have the fastest internet speeds, density over a large region means some companies can afford to expand the footprint of newer technology.

But this cannot be supported when the high-density regions are so far apart and relatively small in comparison to the larger geographical footprint of less-populated regions.
The U.S. and Canadian communications industry is forever going to lag that of the industries across Europe, Japan, China and India.

It sucks too - we have no hope to ever be at the same level as those nations. When we get to where they are now, they will just be moving to the next revolution in communications.

This is why we need municipal broadband. Some north carolina town was so pissed off at their cable broadband provider's speeds that they invested in fiber optic connections to everyone's homes... lots of people in the boonies too. They now have 100 mb/s connections.
 

brainhulk

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1. Rural India is usually very clean - most Indian villages don't tolerate filth. Strange ...
6. No soap while cleaning the dishes - I've seen villagers use ash and coconut fiber to clean vessels. Not sure what the logic behind that is ...

They are essentially making soap by using the ashes as the base and the coconut fiber as the acid!

Anyways, pray the plasmid which carries nmd-1 doesnt find it's way to staph and strep!
 

busydude

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1. Rural India is usually very clean - most Indian villages don't tolerate filth. Strange ...

That actually depends on the place you stay. It depends on how efficient local panchayats(Gathering of village heads) operate. Read: Corruption

2. Food poisoning - pretty common, sadly. I was lucky enough to have only gotten jaundice and not the really fun cholera.

This is true only if you eat out which, sadly most of the tourists do. Households are usually clean and eat healthy food.

4. Eating with your hands - do you not WASH your hands before you eat? I know where my hands have been - do you know where that spoon has been?

To add to that, we eat using our right hand only. Left hand is all for the dirty work.

5. No toilet paper - given Indian spices, it's a fire hazard in the restroom

You can buy toilet paper in the cities and some towns if you like, but it never really took off with the populace. Also, paper is usually associated with reading and writing and in Hindu culture reading and writing is a holy ritual so paper is not an option for most of the people.
 

Dominato3r

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Food baking/cooking/frying etc. process - flithy

That's the only problem I had. I wasn't going to a developed nation, I was going to a developing nation.