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Ten Million Dead by 2050: How Antibiotics Are Losing Control
Ten Million Dead by 2050: How Antibiotics Are Losing Control
Antibiotics once turned routine infections into minor setbacks; today researchers project ten million deaths per year from drug-resistant infections by 2050. Ordinary acts-a prescription, a farmer adding powder to a trough, a patient stopping pills early-have multiplied into a global selection engine for resistant bacteria; can the erosion of modern medicine be stopped in time?
In this episode, we lay out how the discovery of penicillin in 1928 and its rapid development in the 1940s rewired medicine, why the antibiotic pipeline…
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