Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

It seems that it's quire more complicated than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...

I’m partial to the Guinea worm medical symbol theory, though happy to be convinced otherwise.

I suspect the symbol has deeper roots than that, though you are likely right about the snake venom being used then to treat illness.

We also recently (we think) discovered why acupuncture works. That form of medicine from 4000 years ago...

This is because a broad spectrum antibiotic with low resistance is an essential public good that will likely rapidly be made generic by either legal action or international disregard for copyright law. So no major pharma companies will want to invest resources into the development of something like this, and governments are not under the gun enough to produce new abx to invest the billions needed to get it through the approval process. The compromise is to leave it sitting at this phase until some disaster creates enough public incentive to socialize the completion of its development.