• §ɦṛɛɗɗịɛ ßịⱺ𝔩ⱺɠịᵴŧ@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Well damn, maybe if antibiotics weren’t used as a fix all this could have been prevented. The amount of times someone with a viral infection or no infection at all is still given antibiotics is a major driver of bacterial drug resistance. We fucked around and are now about to find out…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      2 years ago

      And then there are all the drugs and antibiotics being used in animal farming. Large scale commercial farms are basically breeding reactors for new drug resistant disease. As a bonus, all these novel viruses and bacteria are in close proximity of humans working at these farms.