Antibiotic resistant Virus update 12/3/13

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(12 March 2013, 17:26)Digger Wrote: Highlander,

I think you may have this back to front...

The infectious diseases that were once stopped dead by antibiotics that they had never encountered before have evolved and developed immunity to those antibiotics.

Because antibiotics are freely prescribed now, there is a far bigger population in which the diseases are exposed. More exposure eventually equates to more disease variants that are resistant to the antibiotics.

I don't think it has anything to do with any individual person having not used antibiotics before, as the antibiotics are not designed to strengthen our innate capability to fight disease, just to liquidate the disease on their own.

Does this make sense? I am very happy to be proven wrong by someone who truly understands these things.

This is just my 2p s worth.

This is what I have been led to believe as well.
It is the virus' that have evolved to beat the antibiotics, it is irrelevant if you have taken loads of them or not.

I can't remember the last time I had to take antibiotics this doesn't means they will be more effective on me than they are on Joe sheeple who has been taking them nearly every time he gets a sniffle!