Antibiotic resistance is an age-old phenomenon.
It's been around as long as, as, as bacteria have been on this Earth.
So, it's not necessarily a new thing.
It's a natural phenomena where the bacteria become resistant to anything,
any, any molecule that, that is in nature or
man-made that would, that would kill it.
So over time by, by way of natural selection,
bacteria can gain the ability to resist certain mechanisms of antibacterials.
And the alarm for
antibiotic resistance was sounded as early as the first antibiotics were made.
In the 1940's, the creators of antibiotics said,
even at the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, that there is a danger
that overuse of any antibacterial might increase the resistance.
And we've seen this.
And we've seen this not only to our original antibiotics, like penicillin,
but some of the more modern high-tech antibiotics that cost
a lot of money to make, but in the end, only have a limited life span.
And there's many reasons for this.
There's the natural reasons, the natural selection.
When you put when you put an antibiotic onto an auger, let's say.
It might kill a certain percentage of bacteria, but
there will be some bacteria left on the plate.
And that plate, and those bacteria are presumably resistant.
So that you can image that they would grow again,
and the next time you use that same drug, it wouldn't work.
So this is happening in nature and it's happening at a, at an increasing pace.