So, we’ll inject these antibiotic multipacks into soldiers (and ultimately everyone in the military, then everyone in government service). We’ll piss out the unused antibiotics, where they will accumulate in the environment having what consequences, exactly? We don’t know and we’ll only find out the hard way. But someone will get rich reinjecting these monthly/annually and some poor visionary will get an award. Science marches on over fields of endless destruction.

In fact, the antibiotics would remain imprisoned in the protocells unless bacteria get into the body.

“They’re engineered to activate if there is bacteria; otherwise, they will just be excreted from the body,” Carnes said.

via DOD wants ‘protocell’ to protect soldiers | ABQJournal Online.