Might be unrelated to the topic but I don't understand how you came up with the summation "India is creating a drug resistant bacteria because antibiotics are overused" from that nytimes article. The same article also mentions that the overuse of antibiotics in US factory farms has also lead to outbreaks of drug-resistant diseases in recent years. Yes it mentions that there's been a clampdown from 2000 to 2010, but I am skeptical of accepting this fact without numbers. Can I go ahead and say that US will be responsible for creating drug resistant bacteria?
You may not know this, but one of the major outbreaks of drug-resistant superbugs is because of Indian drug manufacturers exploiting lax environmental laws to dump anti-bacterial refuse into village waterways. A large number of these manufacturers are contracted by US big pharma because it is much cheaper to produce (even patent-protected) drugs in India. If you're interested, here's the bad medicine report on it https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/BAD_MEDICINE_....
My point is no one country or entity can be blamed for the rise of superbugs. The problem is systemic and it needs us to step out of our reductionist paradigm to solve it.
You may not know this, but one of the major outbreaks of drug-resistant superbugs is because of Indian drug manufacturers exploiting lax environmental laws to dump anti-bacterial refuse into village waterways. A large number of these manufacturers are contracted by US big pharma because it is much cheaper to produce (even patent-protected) drugs in India. If you're interested, here's the bad medicine report on it https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sumofus.org/images/BAD_MEDICINE_....
My point is no one country or entity can be blamed for the rise of superbugs. The problem is systemic and it needs us to step out of our reductionist paradigm to solve it.