Sunday, April 25, 2010

Bugs Fighting Back in Evolutionary War on Humans

-Humans are evolving so quickly that antibiotics, antiviral drugs and etc. are ineffective.
-Lately humans are in an evolutionary arms race against other organisms to gain resistance to the latest drugs.
-While we are still trying to beat the many viruses with our drugs, the viruses are getting even stronger to be immune from those drugs.
-A scientist named Palumbi says that the world should do a "drug overkill" strategy that would overwhelm the infections of the humans who had recieved the virus.

In the world right now, antibiotics, antiviral drugs, insecticides, and pesticides are becoming very ineffective. This is because as every minute or day(s) go by, the viruses could replicate in very large numbers that would allow them to have a better chance of evolving newer and stronger traits later on. Researchers too believe that humans will never win the arms race against other organisms that also develop resistance to drugs. Another way of saying this is when humans first started to use herbicides to kill weeds, the weed began to gain resistance to the herbicide. Researchers strongly believe that humans have to start picking the weeds from the ground like we used to, or else we will have no chance of killing some weeds for ever.

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