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		rolleiflex on July 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New antibiotics effective against resistant bacter... Antibiotics don’t work on humans. They work on bacteria in humans. Your sentiment is generally correct for most other types of medical research, but antibiotics generally pass the human testing fairly easily, provided that they don’t also kill the human they’re tested on.

maxerickson on July 10, 2019 [–]

Don't be so tiresome. They obviously mean that they hope that the drugs don't kill or excessively harm the human.

Antibiotics that kill cilia or kidneys or livers are doing something or other to humans, in addition to working on microorganisms.

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