What is Antibiotic Resistance?
For over half a decade, people have been using antibiotics to help treat diseases and other conditions. Antibiotics have been used for such a long amount of time that microbes have started to develop something called antibiotic resistance. In other words, they have adapted to our techniques to kill them and antibiotics become less effective or not effective at all. This could mean that in the future, things like strep throat or a scratched knee could be extremely dangerous, even fatal.
Antibiotic resistance happens everywhere, nto solely in industrialized countries. People with an antibiotic resistant pathogen will have to put up with longer and more expensive hospital stays. They will also be at a higher risk of dying. Because the standard drugs don't work, they have to try different treatments which could be more expensive, toxic, or ineffective.
Antibiotic resistance happens everywhere, nto solely in industrialized countries. People with an antibiotic resistant pathogen will have to put up with longer and more expensive hospital stays. They will also be at a higher risk of dying. Because the standard drugs don't work, they have to try different treatments which could be more expensive, toxic, or ineffective.