 [ Symptoms ] is antibiotic resistance unique to our era [ Disease ] what makes this a particularly unique time in antibiotic resistance is that the pace of development of resistance is really outstripping the development of new drugs in the past we knew there were new drugs coming on the market    every year we had something new now we have reached a situation where that is not the case year to year for some [germs] that we see a resistance to in hospitals there is nothing coming anytime soon we are facing a situation now where people are talking about the unavailability of antibiotics to treat common infections