Antibiotics:
We are in process of creating a super bacterium. As, Bacteria are among the oldest living things on this planet. The smallest thing we still consider life, they have powerful ability to survive and can be found everywhere.
science found that most bacteria are harmless to us. Our body hosts trillions of them inside, and they help you to survive. But others can permeate your body, spread quickly, and lead to kill you.
As a sequel of bacterial infection Millions of people handed- down to die. Until we developed a superweapon antidote like —Antibiotics.
up to mark enhancement in the fields of vaccinations, antibiotics revolutionized medicine and al togather saved millions of lives of the world.
Antibiotics kill the vast majority of susceptible bacteria very quickly, leaving only a small group of survivors that our Immune System then deals with easily.
Imagine a bacterium as a very complex active system with thousands of complex processes going on that keep it alive and active. Antibiotics disrupt that complex system; For example, by interfering with its metabolism, slowing down their growth significantly, so they became weak inside body as less of a threat.
On the other hand, some other Antibiotics attack DNA and prevent it from being replicated, which stops bacteria from multiplying, ultimately killing them. Or by simply splitting the outer layer of the bacteria to snippet, so that their insides spill out and they die quickly. All of this happen without bothering body cells. But now, evolution is making things more complicated.
By bona fide random chance, a small amount of the bacteria gaining your body might have evolved a way to protect themselves. For example, by catching the antibiotics and changing the molecule so it becomes innocuous. Or by investing energy in pumps that eject the antibiotics before they can do harm.
Immune bacteria direly needed, because the immune system can adopt them carefully. But if they escape, they might spread their immunity.
First of all, there are two kinds of bacteria DNA "The chromosome and small free-floating parts called plasmids".
They can meet each other and exchange those plasmids to exchange useful potential power. This way, immunity can be spread quickly through a society as in a process called transformation, bacteria can take in dead bacteria and collect DNA pieces.
This even works between different bacteria species and can lead to superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics. there are so many varieties of superbugs exist in the world.
Mainly hospitals are the perfect breeding areas for them. Humans have short memories. The dismay of the pre-antibiotic era have been disregarded.
Today, we meet this powerful medicine as a product instead of as the game- changing success of science that it is.
This has led to a strange disconnect:
Although, hundreds of millions of people still don’t have access to such antibiotics in developing countries, while in other parts of the world antibiotics are taking too frequently and taken without care indeed.
As we know Antibiotics should be a last-resort drug, not something you take because your cold is annoying.
Another serious problem is usage of antibiotic in meat production. we know humanity holds between 20 and 40 billion animals as livestock. To bring meat cheaper, many animals are held in tending to cause horror, in very tight spaces, and in unhygienic conditions, the perfect breeding ground for disease.
however, many animals are given antibiotics to kill as many bacteria as possible to prevent them from getting sick.
In late 2016, alarming news arrived from China. Resistance against Colistin, a last- resort antibiotic, had been discovered. As we know Colistin is an old drug and was rarely used, because it can damage the body liver.
So there was little hindrance against it, which made it a great antibiotic of last resort for certain complex infections that breed in hospitals to fight bacteria that have become immune to a whole group of other drugs. Bacteria resistance to Colistin is very, very bad news. It might destroy complete defense and lead to a whole dead people.
How could this happen?
In China Millions of animals pig farms have been given Colistin for years. Resistant bacteria developed, and then it was burst out first from animal to animal, and then to humans without being noticed. On an average per day, there are over 100,000 flights on Earth, kind of connecting every human on the earth.
By creating the modern age world development, we have also built the infrastructure for a dangerous pandemic system. Now, still we don’t need to panic just yet. Bacteria evolvement, humans doing research, new antibiotics are developed as old ones become obsolete, also technology is enhancing every day.
As we know the problem is alarming and serious, but the fight is far away from us. If humanity plays its positive role, super bugs might turn out to be not very supreme after all.
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