Regular archivers are sad today, I’ve upload the PDF of the article page here.


A fairly strongly worded opinion article by a clinician and associate professor.

Let’s hope she’s wrong, but the argument she provides sounds plausible.

  • GingaNinga@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, antibiotic resistant bugs are in almost every hospital now. what would make it newsworthy is if there were a new one or multidrug resistant.

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      7 months ago

      [the] M. pneumoniae in China has mutated to a strain resistant to macrolides, the only class of antibiotics that are safe for children less than eight years of age.

      Which would explain why it’s going kids who are overwhelming the hospitals.