Skip to main content

Home/ WSU BIOL209 Microbiology/ Group items tagged conservation

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Casey Finnerty

We Will Miss Antibiotics When They're Gone - The New York Times - 0 views

  • more than 23,000 people in the United States are estimated to die every year from resistant bacteria.
  • Yet few new antibiotics are in development. Most large drug companies have fled the field. The reason is simple: To conserve their effectiveness, new antibiotics are put on the shelf to be used only when older antibiotics stop working. That makes perfect sense for public health, but companies can’t make a profit on what they can’t sell.
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20 items per page