Super Bugs And How They May Threaten the Human Race
The New Yorker ran an excellent piece on the rise of super bacteria and their resistance to antibiotics. Jerome Groopman argues that hospitals are breeding grounds for “super bugs” and that Doctors have been too quick to prescribe antibiotics (which only help bacteria assimilate and fight off treatments). Here’s a brilliant description of how a particular bacteria adapts to antibiotics: In April, […]
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