Are we doomed to recede back into a time when infections were the most significant health threat our species faced?

"70 per cent of the world’s bacteria have now developed a resistance to antibiotics. We have used - or are using - the drugs of last resort"

The discovery of the antibiotics by the middle of the 20th century seemed to have doomed the human pathogens. They proved effective against many bacteria and fungi causing hospital infections, like meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever, which before were deadly. But this euphoria was short lived however. Shortly after the general usage of antibiotics began the microscopic world revealed its genius for becoming resistant to antibiotics thereby, overcoming the early advances made by antibiotic and antiviral medications.