the.com/antibiotic resistance
bacteria going to the gym while we keep skipping our doses.
means the evolutionary process where bacteria survive drugs meant to kill them, turning yesterday's cure into today's placebo.
from from greek anti (against) and bios (life) plus resistance, first flagged by fleming himself in his 1945 nobel speech warning that underdosing penicillin would breed immune germs.
fleming's warninghe predicted this in 1945, decades before it exploded
natural selectionsurvivors of a course simply pass on their toughness
farm animalsmost antibiotics globally go to livestock, not humans
deaths projectedcould kill 10 million yearly by 2050, untreated