Illnesses such as Tuberculosis have started to afflict an increasing amount of people each year. Diseases that had practically been eradicated from industrialized nations such as the United States. The resistant bacteria originate with mutations that have occurred over time, allowing the resistant bugs to survive while the normal bacteria were killed. The mutated bacteria also would often exchange its DNA with other bacteria, allowing even more resistant bacterium to be formed. The number of cases in which antibiotics are ineffective has risen significantly each year. The question that remains is whether the medical community can thwart the rising problem or does a worldwide pandemic loom in the future.

The medical community has responded to the increasing threat of bacterial resistance. Pharmaceutical companies have begun to aggressively create and test future antibiotics and more antibiotics are expected to be made available each year. The threat still remains howev

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