• Question: What will happen when we get a disease that is immune to all of our drugs?

    Asked by Steve to Ashley, Bernard, Carsten, MariaMagdalena, Monique on 19 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Ashley Hughes

      Ashley Hughes answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      Well news has broken today that there is such a bug that is resistant to all antibiotics and is spreading this capability. This is quite concerning news really.

      My mate wrote it quite well on facebook, so I’ll just use what he said…

      “Which means that we now do not have a single antibiotic left that can knock out the multi-resistant bacteria. The absolute worst case scenario (unlikely currently): We will no longer be able to perform surgery, increased mortality during childbirth, we can no longer treat infections, etc.”

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