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Tetra said:Well it was a strange situation she had surgery got an infection was put on the strongest antibiotic they had,she got the UTI and they had nothing to combat it with and she died in the ED due to septic shock,the UTI was just an infection to far.
That's a bit of a glimpse toward what some are calling a "no antibiotics" future for mankind. Due to overuse, harmful bacteria are evolving resistance to drugs faster than we can design new ones. 20 years from now we may be seeing a lot more people dying from infections that they simply have nothing to fight them with.
I know right now they've got only one or two "final defense" antibiotics left, that are highly regulated. They hold those in reserve for cases of life-or-death only, when dealing with a "multiple resistant infection" that can't be checked with any of the other antibiotics available. Those patients are isolated, and everything is continuously sterilized, during and after treatment, to make sure that if even one single bacteria happens to evolve resistance, it won't live to get loose.