• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    No, not really. It’s only a matter of time before they are resistant to this one too, and I don’t know that we can help it even if distribution antibiotics carefully.

    A war like Ukraine or a Genocide like Gaza tends to speed up bacterial resistance a lot, while breakthroughs are rare. I don’t see anything in this article that says it will be more difficult for bugs to become resistant to it. All bugs evolve constantly.

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      6 months ago

      If you alternate between uses it responsibly it would be unlikely that anything would arise to be immune to both types.

      You use type A to kill most things and then Type B to kill those resistant to type A.

      Something would need to arise to be both resistant to Type A and Type B at the same time which would be highly unlikely.

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        6 months ago

        Name me one thing humans have been 100% reponsible with, from nuclear weapons to airplanes. Especially when it comes to antibiotics, people are going to take what they have available.

        So as was saying, it will always be a race.