In my research life I spent a lot of time studying and thinking about infectious diseases. Many Americans think that medicine has this threat licked, but those of us in the business know otherwise. Here's a report of an American woman killed by a superbug that is resistant to all known antibiotic. We need radically change the way we use antibiotics: they are a rare, valuable and finite source. The most recent class of antibiotics was discovered in 1976. Antibiotics should only be used to treat existing disease when the source of the infection is known and vulnerable to the drug used to treat it!
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