how are we fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and what will we do when our antibiotics will no longer have effect?
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In the past, we made new antibiotics that the bacteria couldn’t resist. If you were born in the 1960’s, you probably got penicillin for an infection, but when you were a teen in the 1970’s you probably got amoxicillin, as a young adult in the 1980’s ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin in the 90’s, and so on.
The problem now is that there are fewer antibiotics in development, and they aren’t as effective. If you are hopeful, you say that antibiotics will be replaced with other treatments; if you are a pessimist, you say people are going to start dying again from meningitis.
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