Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat": UK medical chief

[longship]

4. It's nature not the Pharma companies.

There are only so many sites on bacteria where antibiotics can act. That's just nature.

This problem has happened over just the last few decades since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 which took the world into the antibiotic era. Regretfully, it seems that this era was doomed from the beginning as the bacteria are rather more clever than people may have imagined.

Then, every time someone got sick, they asked for antibiotics and physicians willingly prescribed them. Worse, when people would start taking their antibiotics they would stop before finishing because they felt better which is not a very good idea given bacteria's propensity to breed many generations quickly. They evolve quickly.

Not pharma's fault. Just the physicians who over prescribed, and their patients who asked for, all those antibiotics.