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Chemical synthesis of entirely human-created antibiotics has so far yielded only fluoroquinolones, a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics that includes Cipro, which became famously scarce during the 2001 anthrax scare, and linezolid (trade-named Zyvox), which is effective against some resistant strains of
Ancestral mothers couldn't waste scarce resources on babies born at the wrong time, so they killed the kid and waited for a less inconvenient one.
Local organisations are doing their best to reach out to those living with HIV/AIDS, but due to the urban-centric nature of most funding, funds available for the rural areas are scarce.
Being paper-driven, reporting dieases for which no practical public health interventions exist misallocated scarce resources.
These data can serve several different purposes, including informing clinicians of conditions that are prevalent in their communities, providing detailed and timely information to health plans that need to allocate scarce resources, and to public health programs to allow early recognition and response to changing disease patterns.