OK. You got me, a little. To use a different example, "guns don't kill
people, people kill people." The only difference here is the "weapon".
The end result is the same, harm to living beings. ;-)

Still, the idea that antibiotics are involved in creating superbugs is
valid IMO.

Lilly

Cichlidiot wrote:

Semantics issue. Antibiotics do not in and of themselves "create"
superbugs. What does happen is when someone does not take a course of
antibiotics correctly, the antibiotics will kill the most suspectible
bacteria in the doses they do take, but potentially won't kill the
less
suspectible bacteria unless the full course is taken. Thus you are
left
with the less suspectible bacteria that reproduce and, more often
than
not, pass that tolerance to the antibiotics down to their offspring.
So
over many generations of people not completing their antibiotic
courses,
you get more and more specialized colonies of bacteria that can
resist the
antibiotic. It's really just a selective pressure with a negative
consequence to humans.