Why Did So Many People Do When They Die Now

Throughout history it was common to die young. Not because they might have been stabbed by a passing man or been killed in a heroic battle, but instead, merely received a small prick along their skin in the course of daily chores. Within the next few days that, person could have a large swelling over the scratch with pus oozing out. All the while their body is racked in pain and alarm. They were helpless before what they perceived as the gods punishment.

Family would try helping them for awhile hoping would go away, and all too often they later paid the price of hauling themselves with heavy hearts and silenced bodies to the village doctors. But there was nothing the doctors could do as unseen poisoned bacteria pumped through their veins. The toxin took it’s toll as they lay cold and shivering. Their body shut down, their vital organs deteriorated and mind went delirious, and finally went brain dead. Back then doctors did not understand there was no antibiotic drug to save you. There was only survival or death, but even if they recovered, their body is extremely damaged. Almost everybody used to die like that. Not of things like heart disease, cancer, or stroke which usually kills older adults in the modern age.

So why didn’t they die from things that commonly kill now? Simply put, because very few

During this golden age of antibiotic discovery, more than a hundred more antibiotics were discovered since Sir Alexander Fleming’s original discovery of penicillin in 1928 and their medical usage has saved millions since then. Unfortunately, the antibiotic golden days are coming to a very rough point or perhaps even to a close. As published by the CDC, “Each year in the United States with at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections” (~ CDC Centers for Disease Control and