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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by f6v on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:37AM (#28088630)
> This is absolutely not true

I’m not saying modern medicine didn’t put a ton of evolutionary pressure on antibiotic resistance. However, there’s some evidence of AR genes being present in the microbiomes of previously isolated tribes [1]. So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains.

1. 10.1126/sciadv.1500183

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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by criticaltinker on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:50PM (#28089769)
I see, thanks for elaborating and providing the citation - very interesting paper indeed. "This is absolutely not true" was not a charitable/informed interpretation of your comment, my apologies.

> So we didn’t promote the “invention” of AR by bacteria, but likely just accelerated the selection of AR strains

Well put, we are in agreement.

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