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ProudLib72

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3. Anti-biotics are no longer effective
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 07:14 PM
Oct 2017

Penicillin doesn't do much at all. Maybe piss off the other bacteria?

The Post-Antibiotic Era Is Here. Now What?:https://www.wired.com/story/the-post-antibiotic-era-is-here-now-what/

In 2013, then-director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden told reporters, “If we’re not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era.” Today, just four years later, the agency says we’ve arrived. “We say that because pan-resistant bacteria are now here” says Jean Patel, who leads the CDC's Antibiotic Strategy & Coordination Unit. “Folks are dying simply because there is no antibiotic available to treat their infection, infections that not too long ago were easily treatable.”

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