Pestilence

Ampicillin resistance likely started years before use with humans: Study - UPI.com
UPI reports: "Bacterial resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin may have begun years before doctors started prescribing it in the early 1960s, a new study suggests. Ampicillin, qa broad-spectrum penicillin, is widely used to treat many bacterial infections, including bladder and ear infections, pneumonia and gonorrhea. Resistance was likely triggered by overuse of penicillin in livestock in North America and Europe in the 1950s, according to researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. [...] Many bacteria that cause serious infections in people have developed resistance to antibiotics such as ampicillin. And annual worldwide deaths from antibiotic resistance are expected to top 10 million by 2050, the researchers said in background notes."

Comment: Antibiotic resistance is one of those topics we have been watching for years, mostly due to the dire warnings from the medical community about what a world without antibiotics would look like. It's something to take very seriously.