Tag: ESKAPE pathogens

  • How Viruses Are Teaching Scientists to Kill Drug-Resistant Superbugs

    How Viruses Are Teaching Scientists to Kill Drug-Resistant Superbugs

    Something is going wrong with one of modern medicine’s greatest achievements. Antibiotics, the drugs that turned once-fatal infections into minor inconveniences, are losing their power. And they’re losing it fast. In the United States alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria now kill someone every 15 minutes. Across the globe, antimicrobial resistance claims an estimated 700,000 lives each year.…