Have you ever wondered if there are some drug-resistant diseases you should be careful of?
Generally speaking, you should always be careful when it comes to drug-resistant diseases, but a lot of adults and seniors have the belief that these diseases cannot happen to them. The sad truth is that these drug-resistant diseases are not only very easy to contract if you are not careful, even in places you would not expect to get them and in circumstances you have no control over, but they are also becoming more prevalent among adults living in the U.S.
The story of these drug-resistant diseases starts back in the 1940s when the first antibiotics started to be used to treat bacteria-caused infectious diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis. Since then, antibiotics have not only been discovered at a pretty high rate since scientists looked at natural sources of extraction for them but the drugs have also been extensively used, sometimes even in cases where they should not have been. Because of that, certain types of bacteria have become resistant to these medicines, making the treatment less effective and sometimes useless.
Bacteria that have become drug-resistant have done so through certain mutations as they have been exposed to the antibiotics too often and have gained the ability to ignore them. By mutating with other types of bacteria, these types of diseases have evolved over the years.
While there are not so many drug-resistant diseases, there are a few types of conditions and illnesses that everyone should be careful of. Not only are they immune to certain drugs, but some of them can have disastrous consequences and are highly ingested as well!
Keep reading to discover some of the most common drug-resistant diseases and what causes them!
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