Is therapeutic success perhaps due to luck rather than to good judgment

Since we find ourselves at least on the Northern hemisphere in the midst of the high season of flus and upper respiratory tract infections, I thought that this is exactly the time to talk about infections and their standard treatment with the antibiotics. In my opinion this topic and its many discourses entangled with it leave us behind with a lot of misconceptions, uncertainty and ignorance. Antibiotics resistant species and strains of bacteria became one of the major threats in curing infections in the hospital environment, and are spreading into the communities, examples are tuberculosis and Staphylococci infections, Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

The following article picks up some interesting aspects of the very recent scientific knowledge, only in brief and only in fragments, because the topic is huge, and can easily fill books’ pages. I want to outline the current status quo and future visions based on todays views. This should be our concern, because each of us could one day be a victim of this development.

It's flu season on the Northern hemisphere. Flu shots became a very common way of flu prevention, even though discussed controversially. The stories that flu vaccines failed are not a rare phenomenon. One reason among others is that flu viruses mutate quickly, and therefore undermine the vaccine's effect. Almost every year we face different strains that are not covered by vaccines. Biestmilch works differently.