Opinion: The PASTEUR Act can help win the war against superbugs
Look no further than the coronavirus pandemic to see an immediate and high-profile example of the evolutionary battle between microbes and humans and the antimicrobial resistance it breeds.
Even as medicines and vaccines are developed to defeat Covid-19, new viral variants that resist treatment are evolving and spreading. We have seen dramatic examples of this as an antibody therapy, one of the first-line treatments developed for the coronavirus, has been supplemented and modified to deal with reduced effectiveness against variants in Britain, South Africa, and the United States. Some vaccine makers are preparing booster shots with increased effectiveness against variants.
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