NPR Cross Currents with Scott Widmeyer
NPR Cross Currents with Scott Widmeyer
Scott Widmeyer
Epidemic in Health: Race to Conquer Superbugs
24 minutes Posted Jul 7, 2019 at 1:50 pm.
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Each year, the presence of a superbug contributes to the deaths of 20,000 Americans because the infection is so powerful that it's antibiotic-resistant. How is this happening? What is modern medicine doing to turn this around? We talk with author/Dr. Matt McCarthy about this health epidemic and learn how it's impacting the lives of real people as told in his new book just published by Penguin Random House.