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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. |
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