Blog 12: Emergence and Re-emergence

What worried me most from the movie was the fact that so many diseases out there can easily form immunity to any kind of treatment just because one disease transfers a plasmid containing immunity to another strain. What really surprised me was the fact that this was most dominant in hospital, where people go to get treated, not infected by even more dangerous bacteria. I really hope that scientists will be able to keep the foothold they have with antibiotics and stay a step ahead of diseases. I hope that people will become educated enough to know how to keep themselves from catching these strains as well as keeping up with taking their medications. It's human fallibility that allows these strains to overcome our bodies. From watching this video, I am glad that I never got exposed, but also wished that I did in a small way so I could have a continuous building immunity against most of these strains.