A 70-year-old woman broke her leg while visiting India. Later, she went to a hospital in Reno, Nevada. Soon after, she was dead. The cause? Something that the Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden...
The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is one of the most terrifying under-the-radar issues in global health. All of our superstar drugs are becoming less effective. In Southeast Asia, 98 percent of gonorrhea bacteria are now resistant to penicillin –...