Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs

Crack0n7uesday, 5 months ago

Don’t tell China, they over use it until it’s no longer effective.

ExLisper, 5 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Did you mean chickens?

Faresh, 5 months ago

Does this mean we won’t have to worry about the return of bacterial infections as one of the leading causes of human mortality?

Lath, 5 months ago

No. It means there's a lull in the battle until the next wave.

RedditWanderer, 5 months ago

No, not really. It’s only a matter of time before they are resistant to this one too, and I don’t know that we can help it even if distribution antibiotics carefully.

A war like Ukraine or a Genocide like Gaza tends to speed up bacterial resistance a lot, while breakthroughs are rare. I don’t see anything in this article that says it will be more difficult for bugs to become resistant to it. All bugs evolve constantly.

Pyr_Pressure, 5 months ago

If you alternate between uses it responsibly it would be unlikely that anything would arise to be immune to both types.

You use type A to kill most things and then Type B to kill those resistant to type A.

Something would need to arise to be both resistant to Type A and Type B at the same time which would be highly unlikely.

RedditWanderer, 5 months ago

Name me one thing humans have been 100% reponsible with, from nuclear weapons to airplanes. Especially when it comes to antibiotics, people are going to take what they have available.

So as was saying, it will always be a race.