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Environment & Energy

Ghost Dog

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1. The danger is that we enter a post-antibiotic era...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 08:17 PM

Nov 2013

Not the danger: the inevitability.

There's one big anthropo-natural population-reduction mechanism right here. This one might even affect 'the rich' alnost as much as 'the poor'.

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Human Bacterial Resistence Genes Confirmed In Crows, Gulls, Flies, Seawater, More [View all] hatrack Nov 2013 OP

The danger is that we enter a post-antibiotic era... Ghost Dog Nov 2013 #1

Yes, it's probably inevitable at this point hatrack Nov 2013 #2

Ya gotta admire the priorities of the modern world haven't you? Nihil Nov 2013 #3

Yep, the invisible hand-job of the marketplace in action . . . hatrack Nov 2013 #4