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Re:World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era' by kbenson on Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:41PM (#10596154)
There was an interesting radiolab episode recently[1] about this. The information in this discussion is somewhat contradictory to it, but it paints both an interesting history of antibiotics, and has an interesting story about the possible future.

1: http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/

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Re:World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era' by brianclements on Thursday November 19, 2015 @02:41PM (#10597023)
I really enjoyed this episode (as I do all the episodes really).

The key information they presented was that just because bacteria evolve quickly to modern forms of antibiotics, doesn't mean they don't also reduce to their tolerance to older (in this case, 1000 years older) antibiotic-like medicines that we would dismiss outright because it wasn't created in the modern age. Old medicine was very much trial and error, but it doesn't mean it can't also be effective or worth looking into deeper for ideas.

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