Posted: 8/28/2016
Introduction
If antibiotics resistance is indeed such a serious threat as the media and public announcements would have us believe, then it is high time to change research priorities.
Given all the incredible advances of medicine and scientific research over the past 30 years or so, it is hard to believe that antibiotics resistance has not been better understood by now. We have managed to treat HIV AIDS very effectively within about 20 years of its outbreak. We have now effective Ebola vaccine, several very effective cancer treatments and so on …
A Huge Scandal
It is almost as if the people are told to be resigned to believing that only more hygiene and fewer prescriptions of antibiotics for humans and animals could help us. We are being led to believe that many antibiotic treatments are unnecessary and inappropriate. This is a huge scandal!
It is almost as if we are led to believe that antibiotics resistance is a fateful fact of life we have to accept. This would be utter nonsense!
We have known about the possibility of antibiotics resistance since the 1940s. Human ingenuity should have conquered this issue by now. It was Alexander Fleming himself, who warned the world about the development of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
Colossal Lack Of Research
If more public/government money was funding this kind of research instead of other, perhaps less important or urgent fields of research (may I propose astronomy and related fields or particle physics), then humanity would have found better solutions a long time ago (we are talking about years as a minimum).
Why is not more private money spent on antibiotics research? Why are not more billionaires and millionaires of this world funding this kind of research?
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