Thank you. I will continue with a few questions.
Mr. Morris, in a CBC News article published in July, 2017, you said that, for quite some time, doctors have been telling patients to take antibiotics over a long period without scientific data to support their recommendation.
Here is what you said:
In general, we've always thought that a little bit longer is a little bit better. I would say that the conventional thinking—certainly what's been spread around for a long time—is that if you stop your [antibiotics] course too short you're going to help breed resistance. Resistance primarily emerges when bacteria are exposed to antibiotics. So the longer bacteria are exposed to antibiotics, the greater the risk of resistance developing.
Do you think that traditional thinking, which has been propagated on antimicrobial resistance, exacerbates the problem it is trying to solve?