Antibiotic-resistant infections could dwarf the COVID-19 pandemic
These life-saving drugs are being taken for granted and many bacteria have become resistant to them. Given enough time, bacterial evolution will render every antibiotic ineffective. We need to act.
In August, 1968, three doctors from Boston City Hospital published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine detailing how more than a dozen patients and a nurse at the facility became infected with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, more commonly known as MRSA