Not true at all. There are several known resistant strains that have come out of developing countries.
Why? Antibiotic use can be rampant - in many countries you can buy them without a prescription.
If that isn't going to drive resistance to that particular antibiotic, I don't know what will.
In 2014, the WHO released the first report on antimicrobial resistance, in which the WHO collected national data on nine bacterial infections/antibiotic combinations of greatest concern for global health.[5] The data revealed that out of 194 countries, only 129 provided data, of which only 22 had data on all nine infection-antibiotic resistance combinations deemed to be emerging global threats.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6380099/
Anyway, this is sort of off topic because I know the article was submitted to HN for the cool factor of using artificial intelligence or machine learning or whatever, not because people are really deeply concerned about antibiotic resistant infections. So idly saying "I feel like they are barking up the wrong tree and focusing on the wrong things if they want to solve this." isn't at all welcome as part of the conversation, as evidenced by the downvotes for a really mild, brief remark.
I wasn't trying to derail the discussion. I just read up some on things like antibiotic resistance because of my medical situation, so I happen to know a bit about the topic.
But I'm planning on stepping away from this discussion because it seems like a pointless waste of time that's just inviting negativity from a crowd that doesn't see my comments as anything intelligent or interesting.
Open defecation costs $US260b globally
https://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/open-defecation-...
Price to pay: Antibiotic-resistant infections cost $2 billion a year
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/03/price-pay...
We basically know how to solve open defecation: build toilets and sewage systems.
I think we could largely solve open defecation in five years if we really wanted to. But we aren't throwing resources at it like crazy because it isn't a "sexy" issue and because first world wealthy people don't see it as directly relevant to their lives. They see it as "being nice to poor people in developing nations," not as an urgent global priority because it's fueling the creation of antibiotic resistant infections which can be exported within 24 hours to their country by someone jumping on a plane before they are symptomatic.
And I really can't recall ever seeing a headline explicitly linking the two things. But they are linked.
http://resistancecontrol.info/2017/prevention-first-tackling...
The Gates Foundation is not relevant here, in that problem field, in any meaningful way. It is an issue about operational structure and unit cost structure. Tax money gets spent on black Mercedes cars instead of what it is supposed to be spent on.
Also, it is not a technological issue at all. In terms of tech for sewage treatment, the path forward is clear. In terms of politics it is not.
But if Bill would like to phone me, then I would explain to him that while decency does score high in my books, you can have perfect golden toilets that dump sewage into rivers. In that case I would rather take a veldtie in the bushes.
I can find two. One from two years ago and one from six years ago.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=open+defecation
If you search on toilet, there's a lot more articles that come up, but at first glance, most don't appear to be about solving open defecation, though there is one on the front page of the search about the Gates foundation funding toilet research.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
In contrast, you can put in antibiotic resistant and limit it to the past year and get pages of hits. Granted, they won't all be about the latest sexy research methods.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
It has 159 comments, probably because of how it affects "first world wealthy people".
It would be nice if we spent as much time, money and attention on figuring out prevention. Inadequate hygiene infrastructure (like toilets) in developing areas is part of the problem here.
But addressing that isn't as exciting to people as finding a cure for a super bug. If we really want to fix this, that needs to change.