Quote: Antibiotics especially were a huge breakthrough. As were immiunization vaccines.
Correct, again. Which makes this:
http://time.com/4767683/bacteria-antibio...superbugs/
Quote:The World Health Organization warned on Monday that a dozen antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” pose an enormous threat to human health, and urged hospital infection-control experts and pharmaceutical researchers to focus on fighting the most dangerous pathogens first.
The rate at which new strains of drug-resistant bacteria have emerged in recent years, prompted by overuse of antibiotics in humans and livestock, terrifies public health experts. Many consider the new strains just as dangerous as emerging viruses like Zika or Ebola.
“We are fast running out of treatment options,” said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, the W.H.O. assistant director general who released the list. “If we leave it to market forces alone, the new antibiotics we most urgently need are not going to be developed in time.”
and this:
https://www.historyofvaccines.org/conten...-movements
Quote:History of Anti-vaccination Movements
particularly worrisome.
