• Question: Do you think drug resistance has something to do with global warming if so why?

    Asked by 232drgj52 to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 20 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Sanjib Bhakta

      Sanjib Bhakta answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      Interesting question! Any significant environmental change such as global warming would trigger adaptation in the living world to thrive on and thus linked to some of the drug resistance mechanisms and thier transmission from one community to other! We should explore the nature not to exploit!!

    • Photo: Donna Johnson

      Donna Johnson answered on 20 Jun 2017:

      Not directly but global warming could make it worse, as Sanjib says, through adaptations to new growth conditions, or as temperature increases, different bacteria may cause illnesses in more places leading to more use of antibiotics and then increased resistance through this.

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