Hi,
My name is Crystal and I am very interested in writing for you. I consider myself to have near perfect English....no one is perfect. I am looking for ongoing work, as I like to write at least one article per day. Writing for $1 for every 400 words is fine with me.
I have five years experience as a freelance journalist and product descriptionist for Zemandi, Textbroker, Fido Love, and a couple of other small companies. Plus I have three years experience as an English Language editor and tutor for COrvallis High School. I look forward to writing for you. Below is a sample article I wrote.
2,000,000 Infected with Antibiotic Resistant 'Super Bug'
Each year, nearly two million people are infected with an antibiotic resistant 'super bug' of one type or another. Of the two million people, at least 23,000 people die each year. At the rate of which the antibiotic resistant super bugs are growing, the CDC is worried that we could be facing "potentially catastrophic consequences". For the first time, researchers have found close to two dozen antibiotic-resistant bacteria alarming enough to list in one of three categories. The 'super bugs' are ranked as urgent, serious, and concerning. According to Tufts University, 'some bad bacteria are naturally resistant to certain types of antibiotics'. How ever, the over use of medications has caused more than 2 million people to become infected every year with super bugs, illnesses that are antibiotic resistant.
The CDC ranks the worst drug-resistant bacteria according to how many people get sick, the number of hospitalizations caused by the bacteria, and how many deaths are caused from the bacteria. They also take into account how many, if any existing antibiotics still work on the bacteria. Our body hosts close to 100 trillion good bacteria at a time.
Ranked as 'urgent' there are 3 bacteria; clostridium difficile-C Dif, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae-CRE, and drug-ressistant neisseria gonnorrhoeae-Gonnorhea. Clostridium difficile, (c dif), infects 250,000 each year, and approximately 14,000 of those people die each year. It wipes out protective bacteria that normally live in your stomach. CRE have become resistant to almost all antibiotics, and is know as the 'night mare' bacteria because it causes life threatening diarrhea, and has been confirmed in almost all 50 states. Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease, is the 2nd most commonly reported infection, and is now showing resistance to almost all antibiotics. It can hurt reproductive systems permanently, and it effects nearly 800,000 people annually. Candida is a fungus that has started becoming a problem with being able to be treated with antibiotics as well.
Most alarming to me is how many infections made it on the 'Serious List.' There are 12 bacterias that are at the top of the list for being a serious health concern. Some of the bacterias that we see on a daily basis are different types of salmonella, pnuemonia, tuberculosis, MRSA, and VRSA. All of which infect hundreds of thousands every day. It should be very scarey that what used to be our basic bacterias are now 'super bugs.'
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The 'concerning list' should wake us all up. Remember getting streptococcus? Remember how rare getting staff infection used to be, and how easy it was to treat it? Many strains of staff and strep are now becoming super bugs. Our every day illnesses now need antibiotics, and the ones that needed antibiotics need stronger antibiotics, or they don't even work at all.
Missouri's dept. of health states, "repeated and improper uses of antibiotics are primary causes of the increase in drug resistance." Health officials are also concerned about the other way we are getting the antibiotics that are harming us in the long run,which is through the meat we eat that is treated with hormones and antibiotics. In todays society we are cautioned by 3 colors for terrorism threat to judge our safety. More people need to be concerned with the growing numbers of antibiotic resistant super bugs and the health concerns rated as 'urgent','serious', and 'concerning'.