My former roommate is a doctor and he told me years ago that this would happen. Research into antibiotics hasn’t happened in years.
“My former roommate is a doctor and he told me years ago that this would happen.”
Probably cuz he knew he and his colleagues were over prescribing the ecisting drugs to anyone with a cold (which is not helped by antibiotics anyway).
A lot of doctors these days are little more than salesmaen for big Pharma.
On the other hand, genetic research is really starting to get to the bottom of how the bugs work. They are getting close to being able to find antigen vulnerabilities on a molecular scale and exploiting them. Can’t find a link to this right now but I read about researchers have found handle common to all flu virus, that doesn’t mutate, that can stop them from multiplying.
It really is a race. I couldn’t handicap which
Why?
Here’s a link to what I was talking about. Not exactly a peer reviewed journal put points to real research:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ee3c200ad5a228b3cd0e2c3db179012f.2a1&show_article=1
Scientists close in on ‘universal’ vaccine for flu: study
Feb 22 01:32 PM US/Eastern
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Clinical Trials on Humans Could Begin Within a Couple of Years
Scientists on Sunday unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the “Spanish Flu” strain that killed tens of millions in 1918.
Tested in mice, the antibodies work by binding to a previously obscure structure in the flu virus which, when blocked, sabotages the pathogen’s ability to enter the cell it is trying to infect, according to the study.
Because this structure — described by one scientist as a “viral Achilles’ heel” — is genetically stable and has resisted mutation over time, the antibodies are effective against many different strains.
The breakthrough “holds considerable promise for further development into a medical tool to treat and prevent seasonal as well as pandemic influenza,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped fund the study.
Antimicrobial research goes on.
New antibiotics are very profitable and enter the market every year.
New approaches to fighting infection are proceding and gives the hope that medicines of the fairly near future that will be effective and not elicit resistence like current drugs do.
Forget about saving lives for the moment, there is just too much money on the table to abandon antibiotic research. Your roommate was overly pessimistic.
The reality is its a war that never ends, complacency will cause a pandemic, which will refocus efforts, those efforts will eventually be successful which will cause us to have the upper hand.. get complacent, and then the cycle starts over again.
And with 0’nazicare it won’t happen any time soon.