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"One thing contributing to the rise of antibiotic resistance is poor santitation in developing countries. Another is poverty."

I assume this is why you were getting downvotes? I was going to too, but it does actually check out.

https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/antibiotic-abuse-in-...



The very article we are discussing talks about a man getting an antibiotic resistant infection in Egypt, then being flown to Germany and eventually the US with the infection still unresolved. It terms it "Iraqibacter" and gives a brief origin of this class of microbes as starting in the Middle East and being exported to Europe and America.

So if that line you quoted is getting me downvotes, then everyone downvoting me has failed basic reading comprehension.

I have read other things that state more directly that we breed antibiotic resistant infections in less developed countries, no reading between the lines required.

But I have also read up on research into stunting. It has pertinent findings about lack of sanitation fostering low grade chronic infections that basically cause failure to thrive that isn't readily resolvable because the problem isn't rooted in the individual. It is rooted in the lack of sanitation of a larger area.

Sources:

The right gut microbes help infants grow

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/right-gut-microbes-he...

What causes stunting?

https://borgenproject.org/what-causes-stunting/

Beyond Malnutrition: The Role of Sanitation in Stunted Growth

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.122-A298

Pertinent quotes from that last article:

In countries such as India, for instance, stunting occurs even among well-fed children, and that’s led investigators to consider other causes, especially poor sanitation and hygiene. Evidence shows that children who live without adequate sanitation, hygiene, and clean drinking water don’t grow as well as children who do.

In somewhat newer thinking, researchers are exploring the possibility that poor hygiene and a lack of sanitation induce a gut disorder called environmental enteropathy (EE) that diverts energy from growth toward an ongoing fight against subclinical infection.


The quoted comment could read as just blaming poorer people etc, which is how I read it at first, after further digging the comment seems justified. Reading your comment I can't see another reason for the downvote, and antibiotic resistance being more common in developing nations wasn't something I was that aware of, so I was confirming to others you aren't being racist or anything.

Maybe they should have done their own research? I don't know. The sample size of one in the article by itself doesn't justify the sweeping statement you made.

Ultimately and unfortunately people will say unsubstantiated and unpleasant things and some reasonable comments get caught in people's 'spam filter'.


It is not a sample size of one. She gave the history of a thing common enough to have a nickname.

so I was confirming to others you aren't being racist or anything.

Thank you.




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