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How Antibiotics Taught Bacteria to Kill Again by 2050
How Antibiotics Taught Bacteria to Kill Again by 2050
Antibiotics turned once-common killers into manageable illnesses, yet by 2050 ten million people could die each year from infections medicine can no longer treat - caused not by new plagues but by ordinary bacteria taught to survive our drugs. How did a tool hailed as the twentieth century’s greatest medical achievement become the engine of a slow-moving catastrophe?
In this episode, we trace the history and mechanics of antibiotic resistance from Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin through decades of clinical and agricultural…
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