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Antibiotics don’t work on humans. They work on bacteria in humans. Your sentiment is generally correct for most other types of medical research, but antibiotics
by rolleiflex 7y ago
Antibiotics don’t work on humans. They work on bacteria in humans. Your sentiment is generally correct for most other types of medical research, but antibiotics generally pass the human testing fairly easily, provided that they don’t also kill the human they’re tested on.
- PunksATawnyFill 7y agoWhich gives us products like Cipro and the other quinolones, which destroy tendons. It only took 20 years and how many degraded lives and ended careers before the FDA issued a warning: https://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/news/20080708/fda-warning-cipro-may-rupture-tendons https://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/news/20080708/fda-warni... Obviously antibiotics save lives, but let's hope the next generation is used judiciously. There are doctors out there prescribing Cipro as the first line of defense for trivial infections, and there's no excuse for it.
- maxerickson 7y agoDon't be so tiresome. They obviously mean that they hope that the drugs don't kill or excessively harm the human. Antibiotics that kill cilia or kidneys or livers are doing something or other to humans, in addition to working on microorganisms.