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WoodsieOwl31416 t1_jab4smf wrote

Reply to comment by macross1984 in ‘Looming global health crisis’: urgent action needed to prevent spread of drug-resistant superbugs, CSIRO says by Lakerlion

Over use and not finishing the course of antibiotics when people take them. The resistant ones are the last to die. People feel better and stop taking their antibiotics then the infection returns. It's a resistant organism this time. Then they spread that. Another antibiotic stops working for that organism.

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TonyComputer1 t1_jab51cu wrote

I think for that reason we should just use them less no?

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Skips3000 t1_jabdeqz wrote

No, if we stopped them entirely tons of people would die. Black Plaguesque, have to act and behave like modern humans in a modern world

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mattaman101 t1_jaby5ob wrote

Right so we're all going to die then.

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Skips3000 t1_jacv18s wrote

Sure, that’s what i said lol. Keep living in your own little world buddy.

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mattaman101 t1_jacziny wrote

I was making a little joke about people being unable to act like modern humans.

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Skips3000 t1_jadhjnm wrote

Hard to pick up the sarcasm online, sorry friend. Apologies.

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rikkitikkitavi888 t1_jabfccu wrote

In commercial agricultural applications for sure (main source of developing resistance) and yes also judicious use in humans (run culture and sensitivity and tailor antibiotic therapy).

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WoodsieOwl31416 t1_jaep3m9 wrote

If we use them responsibly they may last until we find new antibiotics.

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