@Tropical_Willie “Antibiotics have no effect on VIRUSES !” – so what?
“Antibodies are not antibiotics.” – you don’t say? Why are you writing that?
@jca2 Yeah, so on that list, plagues, typhoid fever, salmonella, malaria, leptospirosis, cholera, trypanosomosis, relapsing fever, leishmaniasis, el tor, bacterial meningitis, and maybe encephalitis lethargica, are all biotic, not viral.
In 2018. estimated deaths from malaria were 405,000. Of those, 272,000 were children, mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
And, the threat from antibiotics becoming less and less effective, is that the diseases that are already everywhere, but have been treatable, will become less and less treatable with antibiotics. This has already been starting to happen.
What Happens When Antibiotics Stop Working?
The Gathering Storm: Is Untreatable Typhoid Fever on the Way?
Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19
Antimicrobial Resistance, And Lack Of New Drugs, Raises Risk Of A Global Pandemic