German E. Coli Outbreak

[a completely inoffensive name]

The time bacteria have been on Earth has nothing to do with how able they are to withstand attacks. Their generational refresh rate is orders of magnitude faster then us. That is all. The evolutionary process works faster on them then we can make new drugs. If a brand new antibiotic was made every single year that could kill all the bad bacteria we would never have a problem.

[Tellos Athenaios]

The time bacteria have been on Earth has nothing to do with how able they are to withstand attacks. Their generational refresh rate is orders of magnitude faster then us. That is all. The evolutionary process works faster on them then we can make new drugs. If a brand new antibiotic was made every single year that could kill all the bad bacteria we would never have a problem.

We would have. The bad bacteria are also the recycle feature of the ecosystem, so we'd have a huge problem dealing with a lot of waste that is no longer biodegradable (or degrades far to slowly). Additionally we'd probably have a fair few problems with various digestive systems: antibiotics kill us as much as they kill our killers.