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NEW TYPE OF ANTIBIOTIC - TEIXOBACTIN -
TO WHICH BACTERIA HAVE NO RESISTANCE AS YET?
Some scholars believe TEIXOBACTIN may prove to be a game-changer in the fight against highly resistant germs.
Scientists are also developing revolutionary new treatments that work in radically different ways to any previous
medicine. For example, some research labs are already home to nano-robots, that may one day navigate through
our bloodstream, identify illnesses and kill pathogens and cancerous cells. Microorganisms may have 4 billion
years of cumulative experience fighting organic enemies, but they have exactly zero experience fighting bionic
predators, and would therefore find it doubly difficult to evolve effective defences.
So while we cannot be certain that some new Ebola outbreak or an unknown flu strain won't sweep across the
globe and kill millions, we will not regard it as an inevitable natural calamity. Rather, we will see it as an
inexcusable human failure and demand the heads of those responsible. When in late summer 2014 it seemed for
a few terrifying weeks that Ebola wàs gaining the upper hand over the global health authorities, investigative
committees were hastily set up. An initial report published on 18 October 2014 criticized the World Health Org.
for its unsatisfactory reaction to the outbreak, blaming the epidemic on corruption and inefficiency in the WHO's
African branch. Further criticism was leveled at the international community as a whole for not responding quickly
and forcefully enough! Such criticism assumes that humankind has the knowledge and tools to prevent plagues,
and if an epidemic nevertheless gets out of control, it is due to human incompetence rather than divine anger.
Similarly, the fact that AIDS continued to infect and kill millions in Sub-Saharan Africa years after doctors had
understood its mechanisms is rightly see as the result of human failings rather than of cruel fortune.
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