o is the problem limited mostly to the developing world?
Not at all—in addition to also prescribing antibiotics for the flu the West, agriculture uses antibiotics in feed to fatten up the cattle—that’s an abuse of antibiotics. This leads to the spread of resistant strains, rendering current antibiotics useless if resistance spreads too much.
We need better diagnostics, to allow us to very quickly diagnose a bacterium that is causing a particular disease, to then treat it specifically with a narrow spectrum of antibiotics. And finally, there’s a whole issue of better public hygiene.