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Superbugs Are a Costly War We Can't Win
- leashless 14y agoAntibiotic resistance is very, very metabolically expensive. Bugs which are resistant die out pretty rapidly when you take antibiotics out of the environment. In Sweden, they went on a very serious campaign to cut antibiotic use to give the genes time to die out and preserve the effectiveness of their antibiotics, and it has proven highly effective over a couple of decades. In the US, pervasive use of antibiotics in livestock and pathological incentives to prescribe in the medical system mean that antibiotic resistance hard to get a handle on, but that's a system pathology, not a biological menace from the stars. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18545950 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18545950 is pretty comprehensive if you want the detail.
- n3rdy 14y agoNot with that attitude we wont, doctors.