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Superbugs are defeating antibiotics.

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point.

Antibiotics have prevented and cured deadly human diseases for 80 years, but the time's coming when we might have to live without them, if we can.

The United Nations says it's finally time to take seriously the warning that overuse in human

beings and farm animals is not just counterproductive. It's allowing bacteria to develop

resistance, so common conditions like tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and urinary tract infections

might well become fatal again. And pharmaceutical companies are not stepping up with new research

that could lead to development of new drugs. After years of warnings, it's a global problem

that demands solutions while there's still time. First, here's the news.

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Hello again, I'm in only back with To the Point. Starting back in the 1940s, antibiotics revolutionized the science and practice of medicine,

but they're being used so often and for so many reasons that bacteria are learning to strike back,

mutating to develop resistance. Now, the UN is trying to slow down a life and death crisis of

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