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Once an antibiotic is no longer capable of fighting diseases, then another type of medicine may not be available, and a person will suffer.
Born Yesterday
Antibiotics are used against bacterial infections.
Many bacteria reproduce in as few as twenty minutes and continuously
during there lifespan. (given ideal conditions of nutrients, temperature,
atmosphere, and life support two invisible bacteria could have off spring
reaching the mass and size of the moon in one week).
Mutations occur in each generation which favor the survival
of the most drug resistant off spring. If an antibiotic is administered at insufficient
strength or duration, the later generations will develop immunity just
as vaccines produce immunity in humans.
The result is antibiotic resistant bacteria many forms of which now exist.
Mark
To ensure that you continue to take the prescribed antibiotic until all the tablets are finished AND NOT to stop taking them as soon as the condition has cleared meaning that some may be left over. Complete the course of tablets. If you do not complete the course there is the possibility that you fail to eradicate all the bugs and some may then mutate into a new strain that is resistant to that same antibiotic and so that antibiotic now becomes in effective. You are then just a few steps away from catching a super bugs that has become resistant to all but one or two remaining antibiotics and once those antibiotics gain become ineffective you have no way of fighting that particular infection.
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So, people do not die from what used to be easily treated/prevented illness.
Anonymous
Stop taking antibiotic for viral infections.