A Nevada woman died from a bug that resisted 26 antibiotics — here's why it's so hard to develop new ones
SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Nevada died in September from an infection that resisted every kind of antibiotic we have in the US that could have cured it.
The case, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, is part of the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, which is expected to kill 10 million people annually by 2050.
"I think it's concerning," Alexander Kallen, a medical officer at the CDC's division of healthcare quality promotion, told Stat News. "We ha
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