http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/about_issue/africahealth.pdf
More recent updates show that antibiotic abuse and resistance has multiplied in Africa. This isn’t the 1980s anymore. I would be surprised if the superbugs haven’t overtaken measles like they have in India and Pakistan. Antibiotics are cheap enough for a lot of people worldwide, and the mass growth of their use has made the third world a breeding ground nightmare. They are only going to go up, as the usual response is to try the treatment which fails and a number of patients die, even in the developed nations. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are not a joke. We are also not living in the 1850s Hawaii BTW.
Another update from a brief search: antibiotic resistant Typhoid is spreading in Africa. Vaccine 50 to 80 percent effective? I don’t care how many vaccines I pump myself with if I were to go and visit there, I am going to sanitize the water first, or make beer for them, one of the two.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/antibiotic-resistant-typhoid-spreading-to-epidemic-levels/
I never said they were a joke. Don’t know why you’re trying to make this personal. The question was why the fuss on measles, the answer is because it IS still actually potentially deadly. Not so much here, but even here the complications can be pretty rough (blind). It IS still a big deal. And yes so are antibiotic resistant bacterias. It’s not an either or world, BOTH things can be a problem.