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How A 100-Year-Old Treatment Could Help Save Us From Superbugs
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:33
Publish Date: 2020-12-15 09:00:00
Description: In 2015, Steffanie Strathdee's husband nearly died from a superbug, an antibiotic resistant bacteria he contracted in Egypt. Desperate to save him, she reached out to the scientific community for help. What she got back? A 100-year-old treatment that's considered experimental in the U.S. Strathdee, an infectious disease epidemiologist, tells us how it works, its drawbacks, and its potential role in our fight against superbugs. (Encore episode.)
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