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If it sometimes seems like the idea of antibiotic resistance, though unsettling, is more theoretical than real, please read on.
Public health officials from Nevada are reporting on a case of a woman who died in Reno in September from an incurable infection. Testing showed the superbug that had spread throughout her system could fend off 26 different antibiotics.
"It was tested against everything that's available in the United States ... and was not effective," said Dr. Alexander Kallen, a medical officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of health care quality promotion. Although this isn't the first time someone in the US has been infected with pan-resistant bacteria, at this point, it is not common. It is, however, alarming.
[Journal Ref.]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6601a7.htm
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday January 15 2017, @12:54PM
Part of the problem is the "build a better idiot" system where the situation only exists because of people who can't take every pill in the bottle or demand a pill because they have the sniffles. They're not going to survive a system where you gotta take one pill exactly 3 hours after another pill.
Maybe the pharma industry could sell a combined immediate and delayed pill with an immediate dose of bullet catchers and the delayed dose of the real stuff.