[tensor_rank_0]

> That's a popular, but untrue, idea. There is a ton of research

my microbiology professor said it is true. several major antibiotic companies have shut down their antibiotics research program because the economics of antibiotics are fucky.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfect...

https://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk/about-antibiotic-resis...

[kpil]

It wouldn't be particularily expensive for USA or EU, to fund research or create economical incentives for commercial initiatives.

You could say that it might even be the very purpose for which democratic states exists; to protect it's people.