Drink River water and cure your hypertension, heart diseases, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers, etc.

January 26, 2009

AS A WAG WOULD SAY, YOU ARE GETTING FREE MEDICINES FOR

hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments.

Maybe the Prime Minister who is lying in the ICU at the AIIMS did not hear of this Philanthrophy

of the (P)harmaceuticals.

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Monday, January 26, 2009 7:17 AM

World's highest drug levels entering India stream - Rapid Industrialisation [Deprivation] and Wealth [Filth] Creation

World's highest drug levels entering India stream

By MARGIE MASON, AP Medical Writer, January 25, 2009

AP – A man covers his nose to keep out the stench from the polluted Iska Vagu stream in Patancheru, on the …PATANCHERU, India – When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

And it wasn't just ciprofloxacin being detected. The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet — a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment, researchers say.

Those Indian factories produce drugs for much of the world, including many Americans. The result: Some of India's poor are unwittingly consuming an array of chemicals that may be harmful, and could lead to the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria. "If you take a bath there, then you have all the antibiotics you need for treatment," said chemist Klaus Kuemmerer at the University of Freiburg Medical Center in Germany, an expert on drug resistance in the environment who did not participate in the research. "If you just swallow a few gasps of water, you're treated for everything. The question is for how long?"

Last year, The Associated Press reported that trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals had been found in drinking water provided to at least 46 million Americans. But the wastewater downstream from the Indian plants contained 150 times the highest levels detected in the U.S.

At first, Joakim Larsson, an environmental scientist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, questioned whether 100 pounds a day of ciprofloxacin could really be running into the stream. The researcher was so baffled by the unprecedented results he sent the samples to a second lab for independent analysis.

http://news./s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india