TED Talks
Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?
TV-PG
2015 • E114 May 25, 2015 15mPenicillin 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.
