When it comes to urgent health threats, drug-resistant bacteria—or superbugs—probably don’t frighten people like cancer, heart disease, or Alzheimer’s. But the WHO says they’re a “global crisis.” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, calls them a “nightmare.”
These superbugs sicken 2 million Americans a year and kill some 23,000.1 The results can be tragic. Doctors watch helplessly as patients waste away from drug-resistant E.… Read More