What about antibiotics!

What about antibiotics!

Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine. We use them to cure infectious diseases, and to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. But we've stopped discovering new ones and we're at risk of losing them forever. How did we get into this situation? Gerry Wright shares what we can do about antibiotic resistance. 

https://www.ted.com/talks/ramanan_laxminarayan_the_coming_crisis_in_antibiotics?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Antibiotic drugs save lives. But we simply use them too much — and often for non-lifesaving purposes, like treating the flu and even raising cheaper chickens. The result, says researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan, is that the drugs will stop working for everyone, as the bacteria they target grow more and more resistant. He calls on all of us (patients and doctors alike) to think of antibiotics -- and their ongoing effectiveness -- as a finite resource, and to think twice before we tap into it. It's a sobering look at how global medical trends can strike home.

https://www.ted.com/talks/gerry_wright_how_can_we_solve_the_antibiotic_resistance_crisis?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

The UN predicts that antimicrobial resistance will be our biggest killer by 2050. "That should really scare the hell out of all of us," says bioprocess engineer Leon Marchal. He's working on an urgently needed solution: transforming the massive, global animal feed industry. Learn why the overuse of antibiotics in animal products, from livestock feed to everyday pet treats, has skyrocketed worldwide -- and how we can take common-sense measures to stave off a potential epidemic.

https://www.ted.com/talks/leon_marchal_the_urgent_case_for_antibiotic_free_animals?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

What is you stand regarding the use of antibiotics and the risk of bacteria outbreak?

Do you think government should ban the use of antibiotics in animals used for consumption? Explain your answer.

After watching the second video, explain in your own words the comparison the author makes regarding emission taxes and antibiotics.

Use the following topic antibiotics resistance and health to search in you tube and share with us a video related to this topic and explain what caught your attention from this video.

 

Part II

Choose one antibiotic class from the table below and use the name of the examples to find the chemical structure in MoView https://molview.org/.

Make a screenshot of the structures and edit the image by naming all functional groups and identify the chemical similarities and differences between the antibiotics of the class you chose.

See example below. Class:  Penicillin Examples: amoxicillin and ampicillin

The example is missing identification of functional groups.