Antibiotics Future Summary

For more than 70 years, antibiotics have been used to treat bacterial infections of the body. The first appearance of this life changing medicine, was in the 1940’s on the battlefield. This medicine was named penicillin, the drug saved many from the brink of death, by fighting bacterial diseases; from then on antibiotics changed the face of medicine. Infection was no longer an impregnable wall that had to be broken down before the real treatment could begin, infections could be treated on site, at moments notice. As time passed, the world became co-dependent on the use of antibiotics to treat all of the body 's infections, and was repeatedly misused. Maryn McKenna proposed in her essay“ Imagining the Post- Antibiotics Future.” that people need to cherish the availability of antibiotics. McKenna also argues that even though surviving a post- antibiotic era may seem inconceivable, because of the fact that antibiotics have become highly addictive to the everyday lifestyle, it can become accessible with the persistence of change within the administration of Antibiotics. …show more content…
She began stating, “ Predictions that we might sacrifice the antibiotic miracle have been around almost as long as the drug themselves.” Then, McKenna introduced a Nobel Prize in (Medicine) winner, Alexander Fleming, to solidify her idea that “bacteria would develop defense against the compounds...” then continues to explain why no action was taken against antibiotics.( McKenna 189) So, the use of antibiotics began to grow, because the public would not take value in this miracle drug, and immediately became immensely overused as displayed in the beginning of the original form of antibiotics, “penicillin- resistant staph emerged in the 1940’s...” followed by six different forms of antibiotics that were also developed, then resisted by human body 's shortly after. (McKenna