Antibiotic Resistance Could Kill Us All: Here's How To Stop It

Pharmaceutical companies don't want to make new antibiotics and academics don't want to research them. Something needs to change.

Antibiotics have saved countless lives in the last 80 years, but they're not as effective as they once were. We use too many of them, and so bacteria are developing resistance more quickly than we can come up with new drugs. The result is a growing spate of untreatable infections. In the U.S. alone, 23,000 people die from "superbugs" each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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