Thursday, April 19, 2018

Typhoid Fever 2.0

It appears that the once very treatable disease may now have aquired resistance to all but one of our antibiotics. Read the New York Times Article here.

Most Americans haven't had any experience with Typhoid Fever outside of hearing about Typhoid Mary. SciShow explains what really happened.

How did we get to this point were our antibiotics don't work any more. I'm not usually an alarmist, but this could be pretty bad for humanity. Kurzgesagt- In a Nutshell looks at the problem of antibiotic resistance in general.

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