how are we fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and what will we do when our antibiotics will no longer have effect?

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how are we fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and what will we do when our antibiotics will no longer have effect?

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Answer 1

There’s active research going into something called “bacteriophages”.

Now for the eli5: for millenia a war has been fought between bacteria and bacteria-killing viruses called bacteriophages. Both adapting against the other since longer than humans have existed.

The hope is we can eventually use those viruses to kill resistant bacteria