Bacterial infections are becoming ever more dangerous due to antibiotic resistance, which spreads further every year. In a few decades we will be back where we were in 1940, when there wasn't much to help people fight fight off an infection in a wound.

The article proposes "more incentives" to develop new antibiotics. I fear that means "more patent power, as well as subsidies." If we aren't careful, that will result in antibiotics that are too expensive for most people to use.

Let's learn a lesson from the other drugs that are so expensive people die for lack of money. Let's fund more research on antibiotics, and exclude them from the patent system.