Antibiotic resistant Virus update 12/3/13

[Tibbs735]

People do not become resistant, rather it is the microbes you are targeting that become resistant to antibiotics. It's natural selection. You wipe out all the bacteria except the ones who are resistant, which can then multiply and thrive due to the lack of competition.

We are engaged in an arms race with bacteria. The problem is that we haven't found a new group of antibiotics since the mid 80's, and lots of our current antibiotics are losing effectiveness due to the emergence of more and more resistance. We could see a return to 19th century style medicine, with simple infections posing real dangers to life.

Some medicines like tetracyline become toxic with age, but I think that the most important thing is keeping them in a cool, dry dark place with little fluctuation of any of those factors.