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Re:‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 coun... by monieseee on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:55AM (#20904560)
If such a hyper bacteria were possible it would have happened a long time ago. Bacteria must adapt and compete on many axes, there is no silver bullet. Don't forget that antibiotics were invented by nature (penicillium).
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Re:‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 coun... by wkearney99 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:46PM (#20905333)
But not delivered in anywhere near the same concentrations and across as many different delivery systems. It's one thing for a natural bacteria or virus to develop. It's another to have them artificially transported in ways which nature could only dream about having. THAT's the bad thing.
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Re:‘Unsafe’ levels of antibiotics found in rivers in 72 coun... by gumby on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:54PM (#20905761)
A nice choice of metaphor as there literally is an anti microbial “silver bullet”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Mechani...
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