[ktd]

Terrible, sensationalist title. The actual quote from the article is "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era," which paints a very different picture.

[rurounijones]

Given the fact that the "If we are careful" bit is not going to happen (Without some drastic societal changes around the globe) I think we can pretty much ignore that part of the sentence.

[droopyEyelids]

Yep. I'd like to see a detailed analysis of how the future will develop regarding this.

America and most European countries already exercise care with antibiotics. However, South American countries and India etc sell almost all of them OTC where they can be incorporated into folklore style medicine.

Will drug resistant diseases stay within the boarders of the countries that incubate them? Or will the cases that slip across borders be enough to negate any benefit more careful countries cultivate?

[rurounijones]

> America and most European countries already exercise care with antibiotics

Warning: Generalisations ahead

And even in the countries you include as exercising care, we still have a significant number of people who do not finish their antibiotic courses.

Tis a bit of a quandry, people tend not to be altruistic if they cannot observe the effect of their altruism.

[colmvp]

FWIW, my original title was: "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era" and then my title was changed to the sensationalist title.

[toddmorey]

But you truncated the quote for impact. It ends with: “And for some patients and for some microbes, we are already there.”