Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
Antibiotic resistance is becoming a larger problem in developed parts of the world such as the United States. The overuse of antibiotics has caused a sort of evolution effect to occur in certain types of bacteria. They have become much harder to kill with antibiotics, evolving into what’s been dubbed “superbugs.”
The Daily Mail reported that in little more than 30 years, antibiotic-resistance may be more deadly than cancer around the globe. At least 23,000 people in the US die of an antibiotic-resistant infection each year – and some estimates suggest it’s far more. By 2050, some projections suggest that drug resistance, in general, will claim the lives of 10 million people. That’s more than the 8.2 million that die of cancer worldwide each year.
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