Multidrug Resistance Scare
For some time, the media have
reported about all kinds of bacterial drug resistance and its dangers. If we
would only prescribe less antibiotics. If we would use less of it in daily
cleaners or in livestock treatment and so on. Here is a link to an article
(German language) I read today about this subject.
It’s A Race Of Evolution Against Human
Intelligence
We have already discovered
that cocktails of drugs can be a lot more effective than individual drugs, see
e.g. AIDS treatment. It appears that pathogens are much less capable of
adopting to cocktails than to individual drugs.
Not long ago I read an article
which described that there is a race between certain snakes and their specific
predators. The snake’s venom is constantly evolving, because the predator is
constantly evolving its resistance. It’s a race like an arms race.
Since the exponential
revolution of technology humans are going to win the race against pathogens.
There is no doubt!
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