We’re Losing the Race Against Antibiotic Resistance, but There’s Also Reason for Hope

Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:35 am by Admin

A century ago, the top three causes of death were infectious diseases. More than half of all people dying in the United States died because of germs. Today, they account for a few percent of deaths at most.

We owe much of that, of course, to antibiotics. The discovery of prontosil, the first synthetic modern antibiotic, earned Gerhard Domagk the Nobel Prize in 1939. Mass-produced penicillin …

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