The Manchester Guardian (yeah, I know) tells a frightening story of a world of rapidly developing, drug resistant strains of bacteria migrating around the world, and the resulting return of the art of medicine to a nineteenth century level of effectiveness.
There is, happily, a solution to all this.
Put a tax on the drugs.
Yeah, there's nothing more likely to cure a problem than a new tax, eh?
One problem with antibiotics is that they are handed out when they are not needed, and -- when needed -- people do not take the antibiotics for the duration of the prescription. So rather than kill the infections, it is as if the infections are being given vaccines against the antibiotic.
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