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The development of antibiotics is vital to our survival, yet the rise of antimicrobial resistance is threatening to make them ineffective in the near future. A recent study estimates 200,000 babies die each year as a result of the over-use Of Antibiotics. Overall Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms play a role in 23,000 deaths each year. The World Health Organization has estimated that antibiotics treatment usually adds an average of 20 years to all of our lives. In the past 80 years, since penicillin has been discovered, the overuse of antibiotics has put pressure on bacteria to evolve resistance, leading to the emergence of untreatable superbugs that threaten the bas...