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Recent headlines have brought to the fore scary scenarios of what may happen when ordinarily used antibiotics lose their potency at a time when increases in resistance have been noticed among infective organisms. The news items also predict near astronomical number of deaths and losses to economies that might follow in the near future due to the failure of antibiotics. I believe that even cocktails of antibiotics lose their effectiveness over time. The only suggestion that has been put forth to overcome such disasters is to intensify research for the discovery of ever newer antibiotics.
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