First global look finds most rivers awash with antibiotics

Bramaputra River

First global look finds most rivers awash with antibiotics

Each year, humans produce, prescribe, and ingest more antibiotics than they did the year before. Those drugs have done wonders for public health, saving millions from infections that might otherwise have killed them.

But the drugs’ influence persists in the environment long after they’ve done their duty in human bodies. They leach into the outside world, where their presence can spur the development of “antibiotic resistant” strains of bacteria. In a new study that surveyed 72 rivers around the world, researchers found antibiotics in the waters of nearly two-thirds of all the sites they sampled, from the Thames to the Mekong to the Tigris.

That’s a big deal, says Alistair Boxoll, the study’s co-lead scientist and an environmental chemist at the University of York, in the U.K. “These are biologically active molecules, and we as a society are excreting tons of them into the environment,” he says.

That leads to the potential for huge effects on the ecology of the rivers—as well as on human health.

Resistance is growing
Antibiotics prevent harmful infections, saving millions of lives each year. But the populations of the bacteria they fight against can evolve in response, morphing and changing in ways that let them evade death by the drugs designed to kill them. That means an infection by one of these “resistant” bacteria strains is harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat. The U.K. Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, says the problem is getting worse each year, and poses a “catastrophic threat” to doctors’ ability to treat basic infections in the future.

A 2016 report found that each year around 700,000 people worldwide die of infections that are resistant to the antibiotics we have today. Scientists, medical experts, and public health officials worry that number could skyrocket as resistance to commonly used medicines increases. In 2014, a U.K.-commissioned study warned that by 2050, antimicrobial-resistant infections could be the leading cause of death worldwide.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2019/05/first-global-look-finds-most-rivers-awash-antibiotics

Agenda 2030

Agenda 2030

This UN “2030 Agenda” document that pushes a blueprint for so-called “sustainable development” around the world.

This document describes nothing less than a global government takeover of every nation across the planet.

The “goals” of this document are nothing more than code words for a corporate-government fascist agenda that will imprison humanity in a devastating cycle of poverty while enriching the world’s most powerful globalist corporations like Monsanto and DuPont.

In the interests of helping wake up humanity, I’ve decided to translate the 17 points of this 2030 agenda so that readers everywhere can understand what this document is really calling for.

http://humansarefree.com/2015/10/the-un-2030-agenda-decoded-blueprint.html

Families seek answers for US rise in childhood cancers

This article quite correctly talks about environmental toxins but ignores the elephant in the room – vaccines.

Before you vaccinate, check out the doctors (all murdered) who diiscovered that vaccines contain the element nagalase which prevents the body from utilising vitamin D, a known powerful cancer preventer.

From http://the-parallel-universe.com/vitamin-d-factor/

“That the element (nagalase) which is put into vaccines impairs, or nullifies the function of GcMAF and Vitamin D in our body, means one thing – Vaccines do more to destroy immune function than support it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/30/toxic-america-families-seek-answers-childhood-cancers

400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’

400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’

For those interested in how they know how old it is, a reporter was invited to her birthday party. 🙂

No, the truth is…

“The Greenland shark’s eye lens is composed of a specialised material – and it contains proteins that are metabolically inert,” explained Mr Neilson.

“Which means after the proteins have been synthesised in the body, they are not renewed any more. So we can isolate the tissue that formed when the shark was a pup, and do radiocarbon dating.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168