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How do we beat bacteria?
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In some ways most bacteria are easy to beat. Heating them up to high temperatures kills them and bleach kills off nearly all bacteria.
The problem is, is that we can’t simply heat people up or give them bleach when they are ill because that would kill them as well as the bacteria.
Peter has made some good points about how we selectively beat bacteria without harming ourselves. Also – as Bethany has pointed out – some bacteria don’t need beating.
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Well Nice question ^_^Antibiotics are one of the miracles of modern medicine. Sir Alexander Fleming's Nobel prize-winning discovery led to medicines that fought some of the deadliest diseases and made surgery, transplants and chemotherapy possible. Yet this legacy is in danger – in Europe around 25,000 people die each year of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Our drug pipeline has been sputtering for decades and we've been making the problem worse through overprescription and misuse of antibiotics – an estimated 80% of US antibiotics goes to boosting farm animal growth. Thankfully, the advent of DNA sequencing is helping us discover antibiotics we never knew bacteria could produce. Alongside innovative, if gross-sounding, methods such as transplanting "good" bacteria from fecal matter, and the search for new bacteria deep in the oceans, we may yet keep abreast in this arms race with organisms 3bn years our senior.