TED Talks

Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? (2015x114)

Fecha de emisión: May 25, 2015

Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages afforded us by that and later antibiotics. Drug-resistant bacteria mean we're entering a post-antibiotic world -- and it won't be pretty. There are, however, things we can do ... if we start right now.