Drug-resistant Indian Superbug has made it to the USA.

[Marie1]

We as a society have grown far too attached to "anti-bacterial" everything, running to the doctors for antibiotics for every little cold and flu, and have infected out food and water systems with antibiotics.

Well, I don't know what shitty doctors you have, but all the ones I've been too have posters in their offices with cute little personified cartoon drawings of bacteria and viruses with the bacteria being knocked out (with little X's in its eyes) by an antibiotic pill that doesn't work on the cold or flu virus. This is followed up by nurses telling you the same thing if the poster doesn't sink in, and then by doctors refusing to write you a prescription for antibiotics if even that was not enough. They're well aware that antibiotics have been over-prescribed in the past and are very diligent in preventing the same thing from happening any more.

One of my bio profs was a draft dodger from the US, and he used to complain bitterly over the overuse of antibiotics in Canada so I'd hope that most doctors now would be beginning to use more common sense in that matter.

 

[RJDiogenes]

We as a society have grown far too attached to "anti-bacterial" everything, running to the doctors for antibiotics for every little cold and flu, and have infected out food and water systems with antibiotics.

Well, I don't know what shitty doctors you have, but all the ones I've been too have posters in their offices with cute little personified cartoon drawings of bacteria and viruses with the bacteria being knocked out (with little X's in its eyes) by an antibiotic pill that doesn't work on the cold or flu virus.

Great. Now we have to worry about cartoon-resistant bacteria.