how does not finishing a course of antibiotics cause antibiotic resistance?
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You take a pill, the weaker baddies die, the stronger ones get hurt, but they multiply, passing on the “I’m stronger” traits.
You take another pill, those stronger but effected by the first die.
You take another and finally feel better and stop.
You’ve allowed the strongest of the strongest to be the only ones left multiplying.
They got strong because you taught them how to defend against the pill, and they multiplied.
Now you have a bunch of stronger baddies in you, who know what the pill looks like and can defend against it better.
If you kept taking the pills, all those baddies die and don’t get stronger
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