Hold on to your lacerations: We’re heading towards a terrifying, post-antibiotics world

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By Katie HerzogNov 19, 2015, 5:56 pm180 pts
We are very dependent on antibiotics. Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, humanity has come to use antibiotics on everything from ear infections to blood poisoning. But now, thanks to overuse, they’ve stopped working. Resistance has been increasing, and in China, scientists have now identified a gene…

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