17 December 1999 - antibiotic resistance

Hey, you got it wrong, bud. Antibiotics will always be miracle drugs. Only it’s, like, they’re a different miracle now. Useta be, it was the miracle of the harvest, mowin’ down enterococci and everything. Now it’s the miracle of evolution, y’know? The drivin’ force of change. Say, trade ya my erythromycin resistance for your vancomycin resistance.