You appear to have some interest in medicine and sciences - so please , please do some reading. Not just the History channel.
Vacccination is known to have saved far, far more lives than antibiotics. In Jenner's time 10% of UK population died from smallpox. And it was Jenner who did this work by innoculating a child called James Phipps with cowpox in 1796. Your Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 and was responsible for the germ theory of disease. He invented pasteurisation and many other things, but not immunisation against smallpox. Please don't lecture a professional on his profession - it's just not smart.
I am fully aware of our issues with antibiotics resistance and no, it's not our biggest worry. I have to prescribe them all the time and have to be aware of these issues. There are several new classes of antibiotics in development and more importantly multiple new targets for microbicidal chemicals being developed. A whole new CLASS of antibiotics was isolated last year so I don't know where you got 40 years from. The primary problem is not knowledge but rather who will fund the research.
BTW - it's not penicillin resistance that we worry about. We have dozens of antibiotics for pen resistance. MRSA = Methicillin resistant staph aureus. And we have antibiotics for that one as well.
I do not know whether Jenner's work led to "billions" saved, bit of hype there; and Fleming really did very little if anything to develop penicillin. One of the most undeserving nobels of all time. Most antibiotics were not discovered in any single country.
Mendel did early work in inherited characteristics - genetics; he did no work on evolution. Plus he was not Belgian. He was born in a place which is currently part of the Czech republic. Perhaps you are thinking about Darwins co-author Wallace. Again, a bit of reading and fact checking would be helpful.
In my experience fantasies of national superiority help various personality types to cope with their situations in life. If you are one of them then I wish you all the best with the rest of your life.
Finally I really cannot work out what you mean by your first sentence.
I was refering to darwin when i wrote evolution.
I said mendel was responsible for discovery of ginetics.
I know louie pasteur did wotk on germ thery and pasteurised milk gets its name from him, but i did mistakenly think he was the one who notice the milkmaids resistance to small pox. The connection of milk and milkmaids probably got me confused, but as you rightly say, it was jenner. Did this stuff in school history lessons, a very , very long time ago, so you can forgive me for forgetting.
As far as i know, no new class of antibiotics have come on the market for about 40 odd years, new class i heard on the news was discovered a few years back, but not on the market.
Alfred Wallace was a SCOT, not from europe, another GREAT BRITON, who had the idea of evolution at the same time as darwin. They were NOT co- writers, but did have some scientific papers published together, which forced darwin to publish his book, which he had been delaying til that point.
Maybe you should do some reading up and fact finding before you post next time as well, looks bad as a self proclaimed expert in the field does not even know such well known and famous facts.
Me i have an interest in all general knowledge, but biology/medicine and the history of, is not my specialised field, but i can tell you this, i wouldnt make such simple basic errors in my specialist field, professor!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Though right now I suppose that's a blessing.....
