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“Furthermore, because of their completely different chemical mechanisms, viruses are unaffected by the drugs that target bacteria. It has to be a bacterium that’s…

— Bill Nye

“The increase in infections in people who are resistant to Cipro and its chemical cousins is directly tied to the use of antibiotics on…

— Paige Singleton

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly,…

— Margaret Chan

“As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is…

— Martin J. Blaser

Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.

— Scott Gottlieb

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and…

— Alexander Fleming

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some…

— Carre Otis

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going…

— Bonnie Bassler

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

— Samuel Goldwyn

We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just…

— William Schaffner

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being…

— Bonnie Bassler

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's…

— Anthony Fauci