Overkilled Troy Stulen's life was just turning around for the better. NBC news reports the twenty year old, Minnesota native was born with an uncommon genetic disorder potentially curable through a bone marrow transplant. Little did he know that during his hospital stay, Troy had contracted a deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria. One year after a successful surgery, Troy became the seventh victim to die from this bacteria in the Maryland hospital (James). Resistant bacteria have become a threat to the way humans live. These bacteria often cannot be killed, in turn taking human lives. In order to reduce the extent at which resistant bacteria alter human life, the people must not only curb their demand for antibiotics, but for antibacterial soaps as well.…show more content… In fact, resistance began nearly right after the creation of antibiotic medication. Before the creation of antibiotics, infection was the number one cause of death (Williams 115). Penicillin, a drug with the ability to kill a variety of bacteria (Hoyle 14), was consequently "released to the public in 1944" to greatly reduce the number of serious infections, and one year later, Fleming, the father of penicillin, warned about bacterial resistance in his Nobel prize speech (Speer 35). In spite of a warning, civilians were eager to buy this miracle drug. Consequently "by the 1950's, a penicillin resistant strain became a worldwide problem in hospitals" (Hoyle 17). In six short years, what was seen as the world's problem solver, was quickly creating dilemmas. Penicillin was a precursor to what was about to happen next. When the Food and Drug Administration released antibiotics in the 50's and 60's, the U.S. surgeon general "proclaimed the end for all time of epidemic disease" (Buhner 10), but the greater the number if antibiotics that were created, the more resistant strains of bacteria
