Antibiotic resistance means if you were to become ill, doctors would have fewer drug options to treat you.

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But these new drugs, which are being developed by French drug giant Aventis and tiny Cubist Pharmaceuticals , are not going to solve the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

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Turns out the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved of antibiotics back in the 1950s, and the first report linking antibiotic resistance and antibiotic use in livestock followed soon after in the 1960s.

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