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Yeah. 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
by kylehotchkiss 2y ago
Yeah. 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.