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The escalation of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
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English - May 13, 2020 03:09 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBNews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Before the pandemic, antibiotic resistant bacteria is what kept many global health officials up at night. Superbugs have not gone away, they are still out there figuring out ways to defeat whatever medications we come up with. Professor Muhammad Zaman puts the spotlight back on microbes and our role in their rise.