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GhostofJohnMuir posted:The focus should be on a ground floor reforming of industrial agriculture, more focus on preventing contamination in hospitals, and a focus on only prescribing antibiotics to people when absolutely necessary. Yep, what's cool about drug resistant bacteria is that they will generally be outcompeted by non-drug resistant bacteria if they are in an environment that's not frequently exposed to low doses of antibiotics. I'm hopeful that all the new research into commensal microbiomes will eventually produce some usable technologies for farming, because figuring out how to help the good bacteria control the bad bacteria is a much more sustainable strategy than trying to race their rate of mutation with new drugs.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The drug in this story is an Iv drug that gives you nerve and kidney damage when you use it. No one is taking this for a cold. People do not get given this to make them go away. I agree that overprescription/improper adherence among humans is not the issue here, but it's worth pointing out that polymyxins are in a lot more stuff for humans than these articles would suggest. They're in tons of topical and opthalmic (eye) products, including standard triple-antibiotic ointments, and are also used to treat some lung and GI infections since they're not readily absorbed through those routes into systemic circulation. Colistin for IV use is just a very dilute preparation of some of the more effective polymyxins.
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Plenty of countries without well developed health care systems or standards let people obtain and use a lot of antibiotics however they want. Feel sick? Here's some IM penicillin, have fun! Dosing and use are completely up to regular people, so, while they will take them for appropriate poo poo like strep throat, they will also do things like stop short of a full course, take them for influenza or a rhinovirus, or use them prophylactically for all sorts of medically unsound reasons. I agree agricultural misuse is the worst culprit of all, and that we should do better in the US, Europe, etc. but the above poo poo also needs to stop.
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