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>>jasonc+(OP)
Prevention vs treatment, indeed! I anticipate that as antibiotics become less effective that table manners and food handling hygiene will have a revival. For example we’ll go back to proper butter knives rather than everyone using their bread knife in the communal butter dish.

>>gumby+E01
Related: First bacteriophage therapies are entering human trials and gaining steam.

Antibiotics will likely become obsolete when you can target bacteria without the bystander side effects they have on our cells. They are the perfect antibacterial smart weapon really.

https://medcitynews.com/2020/01/adaptive-phage-gets-10-from-...

>>dfsego+kc1
> Related: First bacteriophage therapies are entering human trials and gaining steam.

These may be the first in the USA. They were mainline therapy for certain indications in the USSR since the 1930s are are still in use in the former USSR today.