Every now and again, you just feel a shift in mood. Somehow, the idea of writing a really positive or upbeat piece about zithromax doesn’t quite fit. I’ll leave it to you to judge whether this is really doomy or not. So, as REM remind us in the chorus of their song, “It’s the end of the world as we know it”. Have you noticed the news items on the switch in diet in China and India. These are the two countries with the largest and fastest growing populations.

That means cutting down the forests that absorb the carbon dioxide and creating pasture for the animals or fields in which to grow food for them. But the real trick comes in the feed itself. Just over fifty years ago, scientists made one of those accidental discoveries that revolutionizes our understanding of the way the world works. They were looking at the size of fish in the Hudson River. They could not understand why those living just downstream from the Lederle Laboratories were the biggest and healthiest until they found the lab was discharging antibiotics into the water.

If you add antibiotics to the feed, the animal doesn’t get sick, so all the calories go to building the flesh we eat. It’s now estimated that farmers in the U.S. feed about 24.5 million pounds of antibiotics to their animals every year. This cocktail includes zithromax as one of the macrolide antibiotics. That means everyone who eats meat is continuously taking a low level dose of antibiotics with every meal.

So, unless we are very lucky, there could be a new strain of bacteria coming along which makes us sick and not even the very best of the antibiotics like zithromax will be an effective cure. So, as REM say, we all feel fine now, but if a pandemic comes, it could be the end of the world. Or we may all just be incredibly lucky and no bacteria mutates into something dangerous. Or perhaps some clever research chemist will develop a new class of antibiotic that wipes out all the new bacteria. Let’s end on a positive note. It’s all going to be OK! OK?