I think you're assuming everywhere in the world is like where you are. I remember reading "The Coming Plague" as a kid and being freaked out when the author pre

I think you're assuming everywhere in the world is like where you are. I remember reading "The Coming Plague" as a kid and being freaked out when the author predicted this given how antibiotics are consumed in poorer economies: some are available on the black market, so you take what's available, not necessarily what kills the thing you have which is how germs build up and then pass on resistance (assuming my 25 year-old memory of the book is accurate).