US warns over deadly, hard-to-treat bacteria

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19. we are nearing the end

of successful medicines with just a few in the pipeline. Having lived billions of years before humans, bacteria are adept at forming resistance. There are many methods employed to disable antibiotics.
The few new drugs are just slightly altered existing antibiotics and none are for Gram-negative bacteria which is harder to treat. Even in the face of this problem, research into antibiotics has fallen. They are even resorting to old antibiotics that were not used plentifully due to the damaging side effects, such as kidney failure.
That is the problem.

Antibiotics were treated as just another tool in the free market but their overuse in factory farms (used to fatten livestack as well as treat infections) and less so in humans, is starting to render them useless.