Antibiotic Resistance

[bandshell]

Some alarming news popping up recently about this & the lack of new antibiotics since 1987.

I think the headline "Antibiotics resistance 'as big a risk as terrorism' " is a bit ott although realistically it's probably a bigger threat than terrorism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21737844

 

[hmg]

Been trying to find an article i read sometime last year about a very radical approach to antibiotics, something completely different and genome based.... I'm on it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Do people really march into their GP's surgery and demand "antibiotics" when they've got a cold? And do they actually get them? You hear about this but I dunno how true it is. I mean, a fuck of a lot of people are hella medically ignorant but doctors should know better, right?

 

[mrfaucet]

In China they give them out really freely.

 

[Mr. Tea]

In China they give them out really freely.

I bet they have real problems with acupuncture-resistant diseases, too.