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The Future of Antibiotics
In the United States, more than 48,000 people die every year from antibiotic resistant infections. The last big ones, Daptomycin and Linnezolid, were developed in the 1980s. One solution is to try what the microbial world has been doing and develop more antibiotics. We're not talking about something that has to happen over 100 years.