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Magical Antibiotics
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Any time a character develops an illness of any variety whatsoever, the medical provider will immediately insist upon throwing all manner of high-powered antibiotics at the patient in order to treat the "infection." This is a colossal fail, as there are thousands of species and dozens of classes of infectious organisms — bacteria, viruses, protozoans, fungi, yeasts, helminths [worms], parasites not otherwise specified, and so on. Of those, only bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics, and then only if that particular bacterial strain is sensitive to the prescribed antibiotic. Bacterial populations also evolve rapidly with time and drug exposure, giving rise to resistant infections — in which a bug no-sells what should be an effective course of antibiotic therapy. Notable examples of these nasties include MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and VRE, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus. There are antifungal, antiviral and antiparasitic drugs, but these are hardly ever mentioned in fiction (except in medical fiction where they're likely to be a plot point). See also Magic Antidote. |
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Played with on House: First prescribe the most widely useful antibiotics, then find out what they actually have before the patient's kidneys shut down because of the antibiotics. This trope also applies to cancer treatments. While in reality there are dozens of families of antineoplastic drugs, any of which is only effective and used on a handful of specific cancers, House's team is fond of using one-size-fits-all chemotherapy. House is one of those rare examples in fiction that acknowledges the existence of separate treatments for fungal and parasitic infections. |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Discussed in "Bug Off". Linka has come down with a cold, and plans to take antibiotics prescribed to her on an earlier occasion. However, Gi and Ma-Ti point out the holes in this logic. | |
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Averted in Combat Hospital. In the second episode, the antibiotics the hospital staff keep doling out have no effect on a local strain of bacteria. | |
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Antiviral rather than antibiotic, but in Outbreak, Robbie contracts the Motaba virus and is on the brink of death before they administer the virus' antiserum. She is almost completely recovered after only a day. In reality, this is far too soon to recover from a hemorrhagic fever, which causes massive internal bleeding and organ failure. | |
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The Flame in the Flood lets you craft homemade antibiotics simply by roasting any two pieces of rotten food over a campfire. In some cases, it's preferable to deliberately let a wound get infected, since most food rots naturally over time, meaning you are almost guaranteed to have antibiotics or the ability to craft some compared to some more specific cures other injuries need. | |
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Played straight in a Sliders episode, where the protagonists end up in a world where antibiotics were never discovered, and the nation is gripped by a deadly plague. Professor Arturo (a physicist!) manages to engineer a simple antibiotic from what he remembers in biology class, which is treated as a miracle cure. | |
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In the last section of The Stand, Stu Redman comes down with the flu. Tom Cullen, on the advice of his dead friend, finds some antibiotics and cures him. Antibiotics don't cure the flu (a viral infection), and the antibiotics would be several months out of date, as it's after The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Averted in a Jon Pertwee Doctor Who story which has a major subplot about a deadly plague being released by the story's antagonists. The Doctor and Liz Shaw eventually find a cure by literally going through every single available antibiotic drug to see if it works in lab conditions. In the meantime the best they can do is use high doses of broad-spectrum antibiotics which are just effective enough to delay the plague's symptoms, and a character notes that this policy is causing severe side effects. | |
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In Many Waters, when Dennys is fighting a fever brought on by a combination of heatstroke and being thrown into a garbage pit with torn-up skin, he thinks back to the last time he'd had the flu, when he "had antibiotics to fight the fever". This is made even worse by the fact that his parents are scientists who ought to have known that flu is caused by a virus and can't be treated with antibiotics. | |
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In 7 Days to Die, curing a zombie infection doesn't even require antibiotics; you can just eat a jar of honey and be right as rain immediately, even if you're only one second away from keeling over dead...or undead, as the case may be. | |
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Dr. STONE: Discussed. When Senku hears about Ruri's chronic illness, he identifies it as something bacterial and decides to make a sulfate-based anti-bacterial. After months of work, they make the drug, and Senku finally gets a chance to diagnose Ruri directly, at which point he conclusively identifies her disease as pneumonia. He nearly cries in relief, because the sulfate drug works great against pneumonia, but there are plenty of other similar diseases that it wouldn't do anything to. | |
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In Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, zombies can cause bite wounds, which require quick treatment or they will become infected wounds that cause all sorts of nasty penalties and eventual death. Fortunately, a single dose of antibiotics is enough to cure all infected wounds you have. | |
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