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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
(Ironically, even though) it was likely the day care center...brought the child in
contact with the illness-carrying pathogen in the first place, (it) will not care for him once the symptoms are fully evident (although
by then the child has probably passed the germs on to several other
children).
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
The appropriate pediatric and public-health
organizations have, in fact launched educational campaigns aimed at
curtailing the overuse of antibiotics.
...Unfortunately, however, the researchers also noted that "in child-care
facilities, there was no apparent impact on judicious antibiotic use."
...No one should expect much better from future attempts by doctors and
health officials to deal with the problem of antibiotic misuse in the day
care setting. Because the misuse of antibiotics in day care derives
from an unhealthy and unnatural social dynamic and not from a failure of
medical science or technique, no attempt to solve it through improved
medical education or expertise holds much promise.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
Unfortunately, the misuse of antibiotics in day
care carries dangerous consequences for the children involved, for their
families, and for the general public. For as any evolutionary
biologist could have predicted, heavy use of antibiotics creates an
environment favoring the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
...Experts also point to day care centers as prime 'clearinghouses' for
spreading antibiotic-resistant infections.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
The problem is growing worse, and when population
geneticists at Emory University looked at how antibiotic-resistant germs
were evolving in the day care environment, they limned*
a "road to no return."
*Limn: to outline in clear, sharp detail
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