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Why are many bacterial infections more difficult to treat now than they were fifty years ago?

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Because the bacteria concerned with a certain infection keep becoming resistant to the medication and antibiotics we have manufactured over the past 50 years. Bacteria continue to become drug resistant
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Because bacteria have evolved resistance to antibiotics
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