Tag: Antibiotics
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Next Time You Have an Infection, Think of the Earth
The discovery of antibiotics is one of the most important medical discoveries in history (Hutchings, Truman and Wilkinson, 2019). Over the last century, we have seen drastic development of new antibiotics, which are used in a number of cases, such as treatment of infections, treatment of cancer, and in aquaculture (Hutchings, Truman and Wilkinson, 2019).…
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Antibiotics: Man’s Degradation of Nature’s Protection Mechanism
The use of antibiotics has spurred modern medicine into what we know today. However, antibiotic resistance has caused a crisis within our society. Each year, about 25 000 deaths are attributed to drug resistant infections in Europe alone, in addition to the 1.27 billion dollars lost in hospital and outpatient costs and treatment failures (McKenna,…