'Resistant pathogens killed 1.26mn people in 2019, according to an analysis published in the medical journal The Lancet. “All of modern medicine is upheld by our ability to control infectious disease. If we can’t control infection, we can’t administer chemotherapy, do invasive surgery, and preterm birth becomes really, really challenging and risky”
https://www.ft.com/content/e9aeb9a3-a93c-439b-ab81-a7c71266d992
@cyrilpedia there is a big problem with public health in this area. Far too many think they become resistant to antibiotics not the bacteria. They think they only risk their future selves by taking antibiotics for that cold and as we know people are great at believing they can beat the odds