alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoExperimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldscience@beehaw.orgscience@lemmy.orgworldnews@lemmit.online
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minus-squarePyr_Pressure@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoIf 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.
minus-squareRedditWanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoName 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.
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.
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.