Resistance to antibiotics is ancient, McMaster study finds

Friday, September 2, 2011 - 02:01 in Health & Medicine

Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less than a century ago. Now scientists at McMaster University have found that resistance has been around for at least 30,000 years.

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