Agreed. Cancer is random and having a genetic likelihood of a treatment-resistant cancer reduces the chance of that sequence spreading. Unlike cancer, bacteria

Agreed. Cancer is random and having a genetic likelihood of a treatment-resistant cancer reduces the chance of that sequence spreading. Unlike cancer, bacteria and viruses mutate as they move through the population and slowly become resistant to everything we throw at them. Being treatment resistant is a help, not a hinderance to their genetic propagation. With growing global density and antibiotic abuse, it's the things like MRSA and syphilis that are likely to never disappear.