(I) The end of antibiotics is not a new story. (II) For as
long as there have been antibiotics, there has been
antibiotic resistance. (III) The first penicillin-resistant
bacteria surfaced before penicillin was even released to
the marketplace in the 1940s. (IV) So, many lethal
infections that antibiotics have held at bay for decades
might soon return with a vengeance. (V) And since
almost the beginning, doctors have raised the alarm
over running out of drugs, sparked by the global spread
of penicillin-resistant organisms from the 1950s to the
1990s.