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It is wild to me that something as life-altering as antibiotics was only invented in early 20th century, and that the entire human history up to that point was
by foobarian 2y ago
It is wild to me that something as life-altering as antibiotics was only invented in early 20th century, and that the entire human history up to that point was antibiotic-less. I'm not sure that enough time has passed yet to fully absorb the consequences of antibiotics into culture and societal systems, and I wonder what that will look like - maybe given another century or two?
- DrillShopper 2y agoBad news - if we keep misusing antibiotics as a species we will be back in that antibiotic-less existence.
- asdasdsddd 2y agoI've been hearing about this all my life. Is the problem really getting worse?
- 11101010001100 2y agoWhat would convince you? Some references from some random person on the internet?
- asdasdsddd 2y agoI want a timeseries-like chart that show its getting worse over time, hopefully referenced.
- DrillShopper 2y agoYes, according to the WHO[1] [1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobi...
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoYeah. In many corners of the world, you get handed antibiotics for every cough or sniffle you get, and then people just don't finish up the doses when they are sick. Antibiotic resistance builds within a sick person and then spreads a disease the antibiotics can't kill With so many people taking antibiotics for their coughs and sniffles NOT caused by bacteria, they end up being more present in sewage, another place that antibiotic resistance increases. And finally we feed way too much to the cows. It would have been really, really wise for the healthcare governing bodies to limit antibiotics to hospitals, and stop sending promising new candidates overseas to any country with a track record of overprescribing and not doing a better job of monitoring treatment adherence. It's inhumane for us to allow illnesses abroad to become increasingly untreatable while those governments shrug off the problem. Mandate change in policy before sharing new formulations.