Why is bacteria so quickly becoming resistant to antibiotics and yet cooking your food still effectively kills all the bacteria?
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People don’t always take the full course of prescribed antibiotics because they ‘feel better’ and think they don’t need too. This in turn leads to the bacteria becoming stronger – if you don’t take all the medicine you don’t kill all the bacteria.
Think of it like a reverse vaccine situation. We get a small dose of the flu (for example) with the vaccine to teach our body how to become stronger and fight the flu. Essentially that’s what happens with bacteria when you don’t take all the antibiotics, the bacteria only gets a small dose of it and learns how to become stronger to fight it next time.
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