Muscle withering , radiation , micro meteorites … the list of maladies that can harm or kill cosmonaut is a farsighted one . Sadly , it appear as though it just beget one item longer .
According to scientist at the Johnson Space Center , the newfangled job facing future blank explorers — perhaps on a Mars foreign mission or beyond — is that drug effectiveness declines at a faster rate in infinite .
main amongst the drugs that lose effectiveness during prolonged spaceflight are paracetamol ( headache med ) and antibiotic . The worst slip scenario is clear : Should an spaceman get an contagion on a misstep to Mars , the antibiotics that function so well on Mother Earth would not work so well on the long catch through the unforgiving ether of space .
Further inquiry is necessary , or so the common science chronicle caveat go , admit whether or not other diseases that are readily treatable on Earth get a second tip in space because their corresponding medicine loses its punch as well . Thirty - five MEd were tested on the ISS already , and most saw their effectiveness reduced during a kind of 13 - day and 28 - calendar month hitch . Not serious ! [ BBC ]
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