Yet while antibiotic use is rising – not least in agriculture for farmed animals and fish – resistance is steadily growing and the "pipeline is drying up" of new drugs which can replace those becoming useless.
With Cross' enhanced abilities at stake, she and Cross have to evade a government dragnet and travel to the Philippines or risk Cross becoming useless and the both of them becoming easy targets.
Antibiotic resistance has been called an existential threat to modern medicine, with experts warning it could lead to routine operations becoming deadly through increased risk of infection, and drugs currently used to treat everything from chest infections to tuberculosis becoming useless.
As Shaun Bruneau commented: "People are becoming useless without a device telling them what to do, this is ridiculous".
When stereotypes are negative — when seniors are convinced becoming old means becoming useless, helpless or devalued — they are less likely to seek preventive medical care and die earlier, and more likely to suffer memory loss and poor physical functioning, a growing body of research shows.
The fourth and last model, which was ready by early 1945, could fire 10 grenades in succession before becoming useless.
The perk of visibility, of becoming legible".
They dreamed of becoming cool".
Be careful of becoming overheated.
