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Our widespread abuse of antibiotics isn't helping. To think that we can go 100 years without a serious pandemic while also abusing antibiotics at an unprecedent
by puranjay 7y ago
Our widespread abuse of antibiotics isn't helping. To think that we can go 100 years without a serious pandemic while also abusing antibiotics at an unprecedented scale betrays a sheer disregard for biology and nature.
- rimliu 7y agoThis is a virus. Antibiotics are for bacterial diseases
- bencollier49 7y agoAlthough apparently some deaths are the result of opportunistic bacterial secondary infections.
- puranjay 7y agoI understand that. But I'm not talking about Coronavirus in particular but the threat of a pandemic in the age of antibiotics. This one might be a virus but past pandemics like the Black Plague were bacterial in nature.
- grepfru_it 7y agoSuperbugs in US hospitals escaping due to increased CoronaVirus patients...
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