Attack Of The Superbugs

When antibiotics were first discovered in the middle of the twentieth century, it seemed that they would be the answer to the long struggle against infectious diseases. But over time, pathogens-such as disease-causing viruses and bacteria-have evolved so that they "outsmart" the drugs that are supposed to destroy them. Now many of the medicines that people count on to make them better no longer work. In ATTACK OF THE SUPERBUGS: THE CRISIS OF DRUG-RESISTANT DISEASES, author Kathiann M. Kowalski explains how this happened, the problems it causes worldwide, and what scientists think might be done to overcome the problem.