Forensic evidence emerges European e.coli superbug bioengineered to produce human fatalities
Mike Adams
June6, 2011
Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes of antibiotic drugs and then suddenly appeared in the food supply.
This particular e.coli variation is a member of the O104 strain, and O104 strains are almost never (normally) resistant to antibiotics. In order for them to acquire this resistance, they must be repeatedly exposed to antibiotics in order to provide the âmutation pressureâ that nudges them toward complete drug immunity.
So if youâre curious about the origins of such a strain, you can essentially reverse engineer the genetic code of the e.coli and determine fairly accurately which antibiotics it was exposed to during its development. This step has now been done (see below), and when you look at the genetic decoding of this O104 strain now threatening food consumers across the EU, a fascinating picture emerges of how it must have come into existence.
The genetic code reveals the history
When scientists at Germanyâs Robert Koch Institute decoded the genetic makeup of the O104 strain, they found it to be resistant to all the following classes and combinations of antibiotics:
⢠penicillins
⢠tetracycline
⢠nalidixic acid
⢠trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol
⢠cephalosporins
⢠amoxicillin / clavulanic acid
⢠piperacillin-sulbactam
⢠piperacillin-tazobactam
In addition, this O104 strain posses an ability to produce special enzymes that give it what might be called âbacteria superpowersâ known technically as ESBLs:
âExtended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes that can be produced by bacteria making them resistant to cephalosporins e.g. cefuroxime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime â which are the most widely used antibiotics in many hospitals,â explains the Health Protection Agency in the UK. (
http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/ESBLs/ )
On top of that, this O104 strain possesses two genes â TEM-1 and CTX-M-15 â that âhave been making doctors shudder since the 1990s,â reports The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisâ¦). And why do they make doctors shudder? Because theyâre so deadly that many people infected with such bacteria experience critical organ failure and simply die.
Bioengineering a deadly superbug
So how, exactly, does a bacterial strain come into existence thatâs resistant to over a dozen antibiotics in eight different drug classes and features two deadly gene mutations plus ESBL enzyme capabilities?
Thereâs really only one way this happens (and only one way) â you have to expose this strain of e.coli to all eight classes of antibiotics drugs. Usually this isnât done at the same time, of course: You first expose it to penicillin and find the surviving colonies which are resistant to penicillin. You then take those surviving colonies and expose them to tetracycline. The surviving colonies are now resistant to both penicillin and tetracycline. You then expose them to a sulfa drug and collect the surviving colonies from that, and so on. It is a process of genetic selection done in a laboratory with a desired outcome. This is essentially how some bioweapons are engineered by the U.S. Army in its laboratory facility in Ft. Detrick, Maryland ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Biodefense_Analysis_and_Countermeasures_Center ).
Although the actual process is more complicated than this, the upshot is that creating a strain of e.coli thatâs resistant to eight classes of antibiotics requires repeated, sustained expose to those antibiotics. It is virtually impossible to imagine how this could happen all by itself in the natural world. For example, if this bacteria originated in the food (as weâve been told), then where did it acquire all this antibiotic resistance given the fact that antibiotics are not used in vegetables?
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Mike Adams
June6, 2011
Even as the veggie blame game is now under way across the EU, where a super resistant strain of e.coli is sickening patients and filling hospitals in Germany, virtually no one is talking about how e.coli could have magically become resistant to eight different classes of antibiotic drugs and then suddenly appeared in the food supply.
This particular e.coli variation is a member of the O104 strain, and O104 strains are almost never (normally) resistant to antibiotics. In order for them to acquire this resistance, they must be repeatedly exposed to antibiotics in order to provide the âmutation pressureâ that nudges them toward complete drug immunity.
So if youâre curious about the origins of such a strain, you can essentially reverse engineer the genetic code of the e.coli and determine fairly accurately which antibiotics it was exposed to during its development. This step has now been done (see below), and when you look at the genetic decoding of this O104 strain now threatening food consumers across the EU, a fascinating picture emerges of how it must have come into existence.
The genetic code reveals the history
When scientists at Germanyâs Robert Koch Institute decoded the genetic makeup of the O104 strain, they found it to be resistant to all the following classes and combinations of antibiotics:
⢠penicillins
⢠tetracycline
⢠nalidixic acid
⢠trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazol
⢠cephalosporins
⢠amoxicillin / clavulanic acid
⢠piperacillin-sulbactam
⢠piperacillin-tazobactam
In addition, this O104 strain posses an ability to produce special enzymes that give it what might be called âbacteria superpowersâ known technically as ESBLs:
âExtended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes that can be produced by bacteria making them resistant to cephalosporins e.g. cefuroxime, cefotaxime and ceftazidime â which are the most widely used antibiotics in many hospitals,â explains the Health Protection Agency in the UK. (
http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/ESBLs/ )
On top of that, this O104 strain possesses two genes â TEM-1 and CTX-M-15 â that âhave been making doctors shudder since the 1990s,â reports The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisâ¦). And why do they make doctors shudder? Because theyâre so deadly that many people infected with such bacteria experience critical organ failure and simply die.
Bioengineering a deadly superbug
So how, exactly, does a bacterial strain come into existence thatâs resistant to over a dozen antibiotics in eight different drug classes and features two deadly gene mutations plus ESBL enzyme capabilities?
Thereâs really only one way this happens (and only one way) â you have to expose this strain of e.coli to all eight classes of antibiotics drugs. Usually this isnât done at the same time, of course: You first expose it to penicillin and find the surviving colonies which are resistant to penicillin. You then take those surviving colonies and expose them to tetracycline. The surviving colonies are now resistant to both penicillin and tetracycline. You then expose them to a sulfa drug and collect the surviving colonies from that, and so on. It is a process of genetic selection done in a laboratory with a desired outcome. This is essentially how some bioweapons are engineered by the U.S. Army in its laboratory facility in Ft. Detrick, Maryland ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Biodefense_Analysis_and_Countermeasures_Center ).
Although the actual process is more complicated than this, the upshot is that creating a strain of e.coli thatâs resistant to eight classes of antibiotics requires repeated, sustained expose to those antibiotics. It is virtually impossible to imagine how this could happen all by itself in the natural world. For example, if this bacteria originated in the food (as weâve been told), then where did it acquire all this antibiotic resistance given the fact that antibiotics are not used in vegetables?
Article continues.......... http://www.infowars.com/forensic-ev...ug-bioengineered-to-produce-human-fatalities/