May 03, 2019
Scientific American– May 3, 2019. “Each time an antibiotic is misused and a new strain of bacteria evolves with an immunity to that antibiotic, scientists must develop a different antibiotic to treat the new infection caused by the new bacteria. Then they must distribute the newly developed antibiotic to hospitals, by which time patients could have gotten sick and died. It’s a race to evolve, essentially. A race against nature. And we’re going to lose. ‘This is clearly not a game that can be sustained, or one that we can win by simply innovating to stay ahead,’ said Laxminarayan. ‘We’ve got to slow the pace of coevolution down.’”
