The reason it isn’t a huge threat is isn’t because we’ve gotten so much better at treating it, it’s that our hygiene has improved so much.
I mean our hygiene has gotten better, but the actual reason it isn’t that much of a threat anymore is because it’s a bacterial infection and we now have antibiotics.
Bacterial diseases are still worrisome due to some strains adapting a resistance to certain antibiotics, but they are much more manageable than viral outbreaks.
All true. I’m a little generous in how I apply the meaning of treatment and that’s a bad habit to get into. Our overall approach to prevention of disease as well as reduction in the morbidity and mortality associated with the diseases we do get has generally improved (with some notable exceptions when we take steps backward) in the last few centuries.
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I mean our hygiene has gotten better, but the actual reason it isn’t that much of a threat anymore is because it’s a bacterial infection and we now have antibiotics.
Bacterial diseases are still worrisome due to some strains adapting a resistance to certain antibiotics, but they are much more manageable than viral outbreaks.
All true. I’m a little generous in how I apply the meaning of treatment and that’s a bad habit to get into. Our overall approach to prevention of disease as well as reduction in the morbidity and mortality associated with the diseases we do get has generally improved (with some notable exceptions when we take steps backward) in the last few centuries.