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I've been hearing about this all my life. Is the problem really getting worse?
by asdasdsddd 2y ago
I'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.