How many lives has penicillin saved since its invention?

Question

How many lives has penicillin saved since its invention?

Any other statistics will also help i.e for individual countries or a different time period.

Many thanks :)

Answer 1

Depends on what time period you're talking about. Like how many lives since it was founded or during WWI. Advances in the medical field have come a long way compared to the time when Alexander Flemming, 1928, discovered what effects it would have on Bacteria. We now have stronger medicines/drugs but Penicillin is still used widely today for illnesses that haven't fully advanced yet. I would have to say without Penicillin the population wouldn't be as great as it is today maybe cut down a third or so.

Answer 2

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