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A world where medicine fails?
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Post antibiotic - post oil . They`re all doomed , my grandchildren`s grandchildren that is 
. I`ll bet most of the antibiotics are coming through the food chain . fish are becoming sterile and otter`s penis bones are shrinking
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S*d the otter - so is mine.
Like you Joe - I only have the skin left that I used to keep it in
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As the world's population grows inexorably, something will come along to control man's folly. Maybe antibiotic resistance, super - SARS, another Spanish flu epidemic. Nature correcting imbalances. Maybe science will come to the rescue again.
You can of course tell us more?
The tropical rainforests are full of thousands of different variety of plants which all have medicinal properties.
Only a tiny percentage have been discovered or understood.
At the current rate of logging it will be all be chopped down, gone and extinct in a hundred years or so.
Only a tiny percentage have been discovered or understood.
At the current rate of logging it will be all be chopped down, gone and extinct in a hundred years or so.
Will humans last that long?? The earth WILL survive without us at the helm, it would probably be a better place....
That's not a realistic way of finding new drugs any more. It's too expensive and the success rate is incredibly low.
All the 'easy' drugs have been found. All the easy 'blockbusters' which have a massive impact on a lot of people have been found.
Current phama company strategy is to try and use existing drugs in their database in new disease areas. Or find a small company that has a promising drug and partner with them. Partner with universities to try and find new treatments. But any successes will have minimal impact on most of us.
A huge amount of money has been spent on new fangled biological medicines and pretty much all if it has been poured down the drain up to now. And 'personalised medicine' is the new big thing, it will be expensive though, not sure western countries can afford it.
Antibiotic use in farming is a big cause of this resistance, but it's inevitable it will happen, bugs will always adapt and evolve faster than we can deliver drugs to kill them.
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