“Superbugs” tend to have a higher prevalence in areas where antibiotics are freely available OTC and frequently misused. In humans, this is the case in many developing countries, but in the US agriculture uses antibiotics freely as growth promoters, yielding truly terrifying organisms rising from the manure pits. (If that is not a set up for a B-grade horror movie, I don’t know what is.) Point is, we have no grounds to point a finger at developing countries for breeding these things, we are doing a super duper job contributing our own.
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