Materia Medica: This just in...

[med_cat]

Few among the general public are losing sleep over antibiotic resistance or the absence of effective new antibiotics. People generally have faith or have been lulled into believing that medical scientists can develop effective new antibiotics whenever needed because they have always done so in the past.

By the time most

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[rabidsamfan]

My father was a microbiologist, specializing in pandemics. He was talking about this problem by the late seventies.

(But heck, we could see global warming coming by then, too.)

Economics does not always drive good policy.

(Heck, the sulfa drugs were losing ground before penicillin was introduced, and nobody caught on.)

[med_cat]

Indeed...MRSA has been around since 1950s-1960s, as I was surprised to find whilst doing research for my manual...

And yes, unfortunately so re: economics and policy...:(