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comment by jaggs
jaggs  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”

So, there's a growing problem with antimicrobial resistance caused by:

1. Overuse of antibiotics in medicine and in agriculture. 2. Chronic apathy on the part of the medical profession in dealing with the problem in a strategic way. 3. The abandonment of research by the pharmas because there was not enough money in it for them to develop new ones.

Sounds like a perfect storm.