Question

1. What is the problem with developing more and more drugs to fight microbes?

2. What is the relationship between a microbe's ease of transmission and the severity of the symptoms of the disease it causes?

3. How did FIV in big cats lead to the discovery of HIV resistant people?

4. Protection from what disease in the past may protect humans from HIV today?

5. What are the preliminary findings in the study of Bavarian children and allergies?

Answer 1

Ans 1) When more and more drugs are developed to fight the microbes, there is a tendency that the microbes tend to develop antibiotic resistance to the same. When the drugs are developed for the microbes, with each drug they gradually tend to develop some type of drug resistance due to its adaptation and change towards it. When the microbes develop antibiotic resistance, the drug is no longer effective to the microbe. With more drugs developed for microbes, they tend to undergo accumulated evolution and hence it becomes stronger. When a drug is developed, it tends to slowly lead to dormancy of the microbe and eventually it tends to develop resistance against it. hence with more and more drugs developed for a microbe, it makes one susceptible for microbial infection and cause multiple infection.