The antibiotics industry is going through rough times. Big Pharma is heavily polluting Asia, where India and China are the main producers of the world’s most commonly used drugs:
But it’s even worse when companies give up researching new antibiotics because these sort of medicine doesn’t give enough profit:
https://cen.acs.org/business/finance/Antibiotic-developer-Achaogen-files-bankruptcy/97/i16^
This is understandable given the way our economy works^. The sad effect is that it just doesn’t pay off to tackle new species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (after the same antibiotic industry caused their emergence, in the never-ending battle with evolution – a battle that cannot be won at our current technological level):
https://www.dw.com/en/big-pharma-nixes-new-drugs-despite-impending-antibiotic-apocalypse/a-50432213^
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