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> 100 million times do you know how many bacteria, all mutating and swapping genes, there are out there? also, dual therapy, particularly for TB has been used
by zabzonk 2y ago
> 100 million times
do you know how many bacteria, all mutating and swapping genes, there are out there?
also, dual therapy, particularly for TB has been used for years, but TB is still with us.
- John23832 2y ago> also, dual therapy, particularly for TB has been used for years, but TB is still with us 1/4 people carry TB in the world. Most asymptomatic. TB been with humans as long as humans have been around, and it will be with humans as long as we're here. Multidrug Resistent TB is a thing though.
- gcanyon 2y agoBut drug resistance is already really hard to develop. As you say, there are an almost unfathomable number of -- let's say staph -- bacteria running around, infecting millions of people per year, and still it's taken most of a century to develop MRSA. 100 million times might make MRSA v2 take millennia to arrive.
- aziaziazi 2y agoAs we see an exponential grow or the human population, shouldn’t your estimation for v2 be pondered compared to v1 development?
- jajko 2y agoI dont think you understand the word exponential.
- aziaziazi 2y agoI think I do but I made the common mistake of mismatching exponential with accelerated growth. My interrogation hold : aren’t bacteria infections quantity (and therefore duplication and mutation) influenced by the growing number of host?
- klyrs 2y agoActually, the rate of population increase peaked in the 1960s. The growth once seen as exponential is beginning to look like an s-curve, if you pay attention to the derivative.