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There are deaths from resistant strains. Because people got an infection, and there was no medicine to treat it. Untreated infections are like russian roulette
by _ph_ 9y ago
There are deaths from resistant strains. Because people got an infection, and there was no medicine to treat it. Untreated infections are like russian roulette - many survive them, but not all. After centuries where people would just die of infections, we had a few good decades. Where we had many viruses covered by vacinations and bacterial infections by antibiotics. But vaccination rates are not as good as they could be, and we are putting the antibiotics at risk. That is a step back.