How antibiotics will lead to the zombie apocalypse

I was watching TV last night, and I saw this commercial come on talking about the difference between a vaccination and antibiotics, and how one can make viruses better and one worse. It was really a public service announcement, and unless I just really haven't been paying attention, it occurred to me that I'd never really seen a commercial like this on TV.

Then I came across this article where it talked about how the world is overusing antibiotics at an alarming rate right now. So I thought to myself, I normally don't write about health or medicine or anything like this, and I should probably call this "How antibiotics are actually making us sicker" or something like that.

But what if it goes a step beyond just making us sicker? What if this is how the zombie apocalypse actually starts. Don't laugh. From the article...

"Between the year 2000 and 2015 human consumption of antibiotics globally rose 65 percent — to an astounding 42 billion doses a year. "We wanted to examine global use of antibiotics because once resistance emerges in one place it can spread anywhere," says Eili Klein, a fellow at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington and the lead author of the new report, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

ONCE RESISTANCE EMERGES IN ONE PLACE, IT CAN SPREAD ANYWHERE!

Does that sound like The Walking Dead to you? It goes on to say...

"The biggest driver for the evolution of superbugs is the use of antibiotics," Price says. Every time a bacteria is exposed to an antibiotic but isn't killed by it, it has the potential to develop resistance. The evolutionary math is fairly simple. "The more we use antibiotics," he explains, "the more we are going to encourage the growth of these bacteria that are resistant to them."

Hospitals around the world increasingly have been reporting bacterial infections that don't respond to traditional antibiotics.

"Then you have these extreme cases like the woman [in Nevada] just about a year ago who died of an infection that was resistant to 26 different antibiotics," Price says. "So the bacteria are out there that are resistant to everything, and they are becoming more and more prevalent."

So basically, because everybody just runs to the doctor every time they get sick and says "Give me a Z-pack" (hmmmm Z-pack, what does the Z stand for???), we are actually allowing the rise of a super bacteria that could possibly, maybe, eventually lead to the rise of the Zombie Apocalypse.

So I hope you have plenty of peanut butter and toilet paper stored up at home.

On a serious note, this is something to pay attention to. Thanks for reading. #JWT

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