Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we’ve squandered the advantages afforded us by that and later antibiotics. Drug-resistant bacteria mean we’re entering a post-antibiotic world — and it won’t be pretty. There are, however, things we can do … if we start right now.
More info and videos
- TED Talks video published on 25 Jun 2015.
- What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore? (My TED Talk), by Maryn McKenna, nationalgeographic, 2015/06/26.
- Watch more research videos on our YouTube channel.
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many thanks Erik