FIGHTING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE I’m seeing more and more news on how antibiotic resistance has become a serious public health problem. Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria develop the ability to withstand the drugs designed to kill them. When bacteria become resistant, antibiotics cannot fight them and the bacteria multiply. Antibiotics are ultra-important to modern medicine. Think of penicillin, tetracycline and erythromycin and all the more recently discovered antibiotics. These drugs fight infections caused by bacteria in both humans and animals by killing the bacteria or making it difficult for the bacteria to grow and multiply. Bacteria are single-celled organisms found both...