Friday 31 March 2023

'The post-antibiotic era': WHO warns of too few new drugs for deadly superbugs

'The post-antibiotic era': WHO warns of too few new drugs for deadly superbugs

Late last year, one of Dr. Vance Fowler’s patients — a man in his 60s who’d returned to North Carolina from visiting his family in Nepal — died of a bacterial infection. He’d been treated at a top U.S. hospital with access to the strongest antibiotics. But the infection, a drug-resistant strain of E. coli, surged on.

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