Frameshift

Sometimes even when everybody agrees a catastrophe is coming in the future, no one can be bothered to do anything about it until it’s too late. That’s the story of the antibiotics era: different groups, all aware that they were making bacterial resistance worse, have been slow to adopt changes to their habits. Today we examine why we let the bacteria get so strong, and whether we might still be able to avert the looming germpocalypse.