Antibiotics have saved millions of lives since they were first observed by Pasteur and Koch and later named by Selman Waksman in 1942. Unfortunately, antibiotic-resistant microbial strains are becoming more prevalent and therefore making once easily treated infections more difficult to treat. For your initial discussion post , share your thoughts on three ways that society—not physicians or medical staff—can help to reduce the development of drug-resistant microbial strains. .