15 September 2016 - Misuse and overuse have blunted their impact. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Berkely & Farrer claim we need to be smarter about how we deploy and monitor them.

Ever since antibiotics were first developed and heralded as a miracle of modern medicine more than half a century ago, experts have warned of the dangers of their misuse. By exposing bugs to just enough medicine to encourage resistance, the fear was that we would end up encouraging germs to evade the very drugs that were designed to counter their impact.

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