I’ve heard many times that we shouldn’t use antibiotics when not necessary because it could lead to bacteria developing resistance towards the drugs.
Couldn’t we simply counter this resistance with another drug?
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We do not have an unlimited supply of “new” drugs. They take time and money to develop, we often have to find some new and unique source of antibacterial chemicals, often goes hand in hand with discovering new species of organisms.. there’s not an infinite supply of new organisms to be discovered and we’re killing them off with a global extinction event faster than they can be discovered.
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