Antibiotics Backfiring There are hundreds of issues on this small planet that may be called, if important enough, a Global Crisis. One most significant issues in this world it the growing resistance to antibiotics and they growing number a super bugs today. With these superbugs growing stronger and stronger each day, more people and companies are becoming aware of their devastating effects for the future. There are a number of factors that played a part in the growing resistance to antibiotics such as Abuse of them which lead them evolving. This was caused by people constantly using them for little things that did not require antibiotics. Through this people began to run into a number of issues because superbugs started appearing which cause
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‘Superbugs’, or bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, are not new to the world and have been around much longer than most people would think. One article states that “Antibiotics have been used since the 1940’s to kill dangerous disease causing bacteria, but using antibiotics inappropriately… not only affects your own immune system, but can lead to to…’superbugs’ developing in communities” (Antibioticsabuse). This is huge because it tells us that since we started using antibiotics to fight bacteria, we started the process of evolution in bacteria, giving them antibiotics. Ever since the start of antibiotics we have had the issue with antibiotics, but we were creating new antibiotics so fast that it never came to our attention. This is no new threat to the world and has been affecting more and more people as the years go on. These ‘superbugs’ first mutate/evolve showing only undefined mutations with every little resistance and then grow into high level resistance bacteria which show resistance to numerous antibiotics (Arias and Murray). These bugs have been hiding and using the mistake of patients and doctors to become stronger than the antibiotics that your doctor prescribed for your little girl who has the “Common Cold”. The “Common Cold” which is a simple VIRAL infection (Common Cold) not bacteria. Now your 4 year old little girl has bacteria in her body becoming very resistant to that antibiotic and next thing you know you 're in the hospital a year later being told that the antibiotics that were given to your daughter don 't work and not only is she weak form the surgery she just received but she has a superbug sapping the life from her. There are hundreds of these cases across the country starting with this little girl and spreading and eventually turning into and “...a first class multidrug resistant pathogen.” (Arias and Murray).
‘Superbugs’, or bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, are not new to the world and have been around much longer than most people would think. One article states that “Antibiotics have been used since the 1940’s to kill dangerous disease causing bacteria, but using antibiotics inappropriately… not only affects your own immune system, but can lead to to…’superbugs’ developing in communities” (Antibioticsabuse). This is huge because it tells us that since we started using antibiotics to fight bacteria, we started the process of evolution in bacteria, giving them antibiotics. Ever since the start of antibiotics we have had the issue with antibiotics, but we were creating new antibiotics so fast that it never came to our attention. This is no new threat to the world and has been affecting more and more people as the years go on. These ‘superbugs’ first mutate/evolve showing only undefined mutations with every little resistance and then grow into high level resistance bacteria which show resistance to numerous antibiotics (Arias and Murray). These bugs have been hiding and using the mistake of patients and doctors to become stronger than the antibiotics that your doctor prescribed for your little girl who has the “Common Cold”. The “Common Cold” which is a simple VIRAL infection (Common Cold) not bacteria. Now your 4 year old little girl has bacteria in her body becoming very resistant to that antibiotic and next thing you know you 're in the hospital a year later being told that the antibiotics that were given to your daughter don 't work and not only is she weak form the surgery she just received but she has a superbug sapping the life from her. There are hundreds of these cases across the country starting with this little girl and spreading and eventually turning into and “...a first class multidrug resistant pathogen.” (Arias and Murray).