<
https://theconversation.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-antibiotics-what-would-a-post-antibiotic-world-look-like-213450>
"These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of
antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case –
antibiotics have been available for less than a century.
Before that, patients would die of relatively trivial infections that became
more serious. Some serious infections, such as those involving the heart
valves, were inevitably fatal.
Other serious infections, such as tuberculosis, weren’t always fatal. Up to a
half of people died within a year with the most severe forms, but some people
recovered without treatment and the remainder had ongoing chronic infection
that slowly ate away at the body over many years.
Once we had antibiotics, the outcomes for these infections were much better."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
