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It's hard to believe that less than one human lifetime has elapsed between when a bad staph infection would almost certainly kill you, to a period when you coul
by justinjlynn 10y ago
It's hard to believe that less than one human lifetime has elapsed between when a bad staph infection would almost certainly kill you, to a period when you could destroy most any bacterial infection, and now we're worried about being right back where we started. Evolution works fast, let's hope we can stay ahead in the arms race.
- takingflac 10y agoMold has been using penicillin to kill bacteria for a very long time. Resistance to it has been developing right alongside it, but it is only in the past 75 years that we have increased the pressure on bacteria to favor resistance.