Antibiotics Stopped Working

Antibiotics in the Long Term Constantly improving our daily lives by making food safer so that we may live longer and healthier is one of the many things we have developed over hundreds of years of trial and error. Unfortunately there are few solutions that are 100% full proof and it is becoming apparent that the antibiotics that millions use on a daily basis might not be a sustainable solution. In the article “What If Antibiotics Stopped Working?” (Voss, 2014) the author begins the article with a story about a woman who developed a urinary infection and her failed attempts to permanently get rid of the disease by taking antibiotics that her doctors were prescribing her. Despite the fact that trained professionals were prescribing antibiotics