Silver_Surfer1 wrote:Sad to hear this is striking again. It seems like it is always going to be something. I remember these past few years around the world people have dealt with AIDS, ebola, bird flu, West Nile Virus and some other type of plague or sickness, although some of them are more deadly and serious than others. I have read that the antibiotics and other medicines that people take to prevent so many of these diseases and other sicknesses are not working as good as they used to as our bodies have become more accustomed to them, etc. Scary in the world today for so many reasons.
Humanity will basically never get rid of infectious disease. And honestly, going into the future, it may get worse in some ways. Not just because of antibiotic resistance (which is the bacteria getting accustomed to antibiotics and evolving resistance to them, not us) but because climate change is likely to help disease vectors, like mosquitos, spread into new areas and they'll take their diseases with them. Medicine is beginning to enter a post-antibiotic era because once we had antibiotics, we weren't so great about using them properly and it's coming back to bite us.
Hint to all: if you have a viral illness, don't ask for antibiotics from your doctor. They don't help against viruses at all. Overuse (like in agriculture) and misuse of antibiotics (like using them for a viral illness) are the major causes of antibiotic resistance.