Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Cloverfield

A recent news article about antibiotic resistant bacteria used the word "crisis," as is very very common in the news these days. It brought to mind a post from earlier in the year about how having a post a day does not mean searching the news for "the terms CrisisCollapse, Apocalypse, or Cloverfield."

Googling for Crisis in the news brought up so many records that moving to the last item in the list seemed more worthwhile - likely to get a smaller list, something manageable.

But, no: J.J. Abrams has an upcoming film that has a "Cloverfield feel," so it showed up a few dozen times in the news. And still nobody knows anything about it, except for what has been said here, which at least indicates it is not a sequel.

(Apocalypse, incidentally, only gets references to the upcoming X-Men movie. "Collapse" has a number of different entries across many news sources, with references to oil prices, the (probably related) ruble, and the Greek stock market drop. And maybe this isn't such a bad way to set up a blog. Perhaps next year... )

As for those "superbugs" in the New York Times article, they are particularly in India, blamed on a cavalier attitude toward the use of antibiotics. It's more frightening than such can be, though, because it doesn't even mention methicillin resistant staphylococcus aurae (MRSA). That's the one that usually shows up in these discussions, being a bacteria that causes infections in humans and isn't held back by methicillin or it relations in the penicillin-related antibiotics.



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