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Even if you've never taken antibiotics, you're in the same boat as everyone else. The resistant bacteria are in the environment.

If your immune system works fine, there's less to worry about. The most urgent danger is to the very young, old, or immunocompromised because of illness or therapy. (That said, MRSA infections do happen in otherwise healthy people from time to time)

If you've been avoiding meat raised with antibiotics, you're part of the solution, because you're pushing the market away from the cheap short-term fix (antibiotics) towards more sustainable solutions without the societal consequences.




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