# Good news! Teixobactin!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450 "2015-01-10T00:37:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450/1 "2015-01-10T00:37:07Z")

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No, really, it’s good. ([New antibiotic that can kill superbugs, like MRSA](http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-antibiotic-teixobactin-20150106-story.html).)

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450/2 "2015-01-10T01:15:59Z")

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The cynic in me says “Great! Another antibiotic that we can overprescribe and use indiscriminately until it becomes ineffective, too.”

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450/3 "2015-01-10T02:03:34Z")

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> [@beowulff](#):
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> The cynic in me says “Great! Another antibiotic that we can overprescribe and use indiscriminately until it becomes ineffective, too.”

The TV watcher in me says 'sounds an awful lot like Tomacco. Is this a joke thread?" Maybe our 800th thread about bacon.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450/4 "2015-01-10T02:37:51Z")

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The drug has been discovered. It kills bacteria. Does it kill mice? If not, how do people react to it? Stage 1, then stage 2, then stage 3 trials. If all goes well, it might be on the market in five years. Or maybe not. Then it will cost $100 a dose. I’m not holding my breath.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-teixobactin/709450/5 "2015-01-10T02:48:52Z")

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Sounds like an Aztec name.

Teixobactin: Cuts the hearts out of germs and sacrifices them to the Feathered Serpent Lord.