Another super bug?

“The fungus, Candida albicans, is widespread among humans.  It is relatively harmless to healthy people but can be fatal to hospital patients with weak immune systems.”  It causes 25% of hospital blood infections and is an opportunistic infection that moves from the gut to the blood stream when body defenses are low.  Like MRSA and C. difficil (“C. dif”), this fungus has the ability to develop resistance to treatment.  At the recent Society for General Microbiology conference, Dr. Carol Munro of Aberdeen University acknowledged, “C. albicans does not infect as many people as MRSA but doctors are so scared of people getting infections that they bombard them with drugs from the start which weakens the immune system.”  When severe infections set in, there is a 50% death rate from the disease (Telegraph, September 7, 2011).

Disease and “pestilence” are some of the “signs of the end of the age” Christ listed in Matthew 24:7-8.  In modern society, rather than live healthier lives and turn to God first for healing when sick (see James 5:13-16), most people put their complete faith and trust in doctors, hospitals and medicine.  One day soon most diseases will disappear because of obedience to God’s laws (Exodus 15:26).  What will that world be like—a world free of disease?

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