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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by piyush_soni on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:44AM (#13408854)
I don't know why, but I have a faint hope that some day AI and Machine learning will help solve these problems. Problems like these, and selectively killing cancer cells. Of course, just a hope.
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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by balls187 on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:54AM (#13408886)
1 person out of 300,000,000 has died that's linked to drug resistant superbug.

Hardly a problem.

Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated.

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by TomAnthony on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:19AM (#13408976)
The article mentions that this isn't the first such case. It is just a more recent example.

Furthermore, there are multiple examples of bacteria that are resistant to families of antibiotics, which indicates the direction of the trend.

If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by arviewer on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:22AM (#13408991)
> If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?

What we should, does not matter. When it starts to cost money, or when there is an opportunity to earn money, then things will change.

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by joering2 on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:21AM (#13408989)
I hope you will see this message before I get downvoted, but every time I hear such opinion, I wonder about person's character...

So - would you say the same thing, if that one person happen to be your mother, or a son?

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by balls187 on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:53AM (#13410622)
Keeping perspective means exactly what about my character?
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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by MaysonL on Monday January 16, 2017 @07:24PM (#13414247)
Read this. "The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit"[0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by onion2k on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:05AM (#13408920)
Of course AI could also just solve the problem by killing anyone who has superbugs, so that the spread of such things is eradicated.

That wouldn't work if the infectious stage of contamination comes before any obvious symptoms present themselves. Certainly in the case of colds and influenza the symptoms that make you look/feel unwell come days after you've been passing it to other people.

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Re:A woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available a... by TeMPOraL on Monday January 16, 2017 @04:15AM (#13408958)
Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1612/, especially alt-text: "The contagious period ends right around when you start to sound sick over the phone, which is probably evidence of cold viruses evolving to spread optimally in the workplace.".
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