What has the inappropriate use or overuse of antibiotic drugs for treating humans and livestock fostered?
A) Mad Cow disease and E. Coli are neither bacteria nor viruses and because of the complacency caused by antibiotics people are uninformed about the potential harmful diseases in their meat.
B) Antibiotics are actually threatening to humans and other living organisms as well, because as their name suggests, they are not friendly to life.
C) The evolution of resistant strains of tuberculosis and other bacterial diseases, even as development of new generations of antibiotics has lagged.
D) People now think they are immune to everything, which they are not.

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The inappropriate or overuse of antibiotics has led to the evolution of resistant strains of bacteria, such as tuberculosis, because bacteria can evolve rapidly to evade the mechanisms of antibiotics, leading to a situation where existing antibiotics become less effective or ineffective. This is a significant concern in public health due to the slow pace of new antibiotic development.

What Has the Inappropriate Use or Overuse of Antibiotic Drugs