Peter L. Borst wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>> We are not all dropping like flies from resistant bacteria.
> 
> I know, but would it be comforting to know that you were one of "only"
> 90,000 who die from infections that year in the US? By the way, both
> my mother and her brother died from septicemia in the 1990s (in the
> hospital).

I am truly sorry for your loss. I knew when I wrote that numbers never 
tell the whole story since each one is a tragedy, but we all can count 
the loss of family and friends to things that, in time, will be 
conquered.

Even with resistance, we are fortunate to live at a time when medicine 
is providing antibiotics that work. A good friend recently had both 
MSRA and COPD and antibiotics got her through it. Twenty years ago, 
she would never have made it.

Again, I am sorry for your loss.

Bill

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