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Superbugs: Apocalypse … Now?

Science Vs

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Wendy Zuckerman is at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia with Dr. Fernando Gaudillo Altimarano. They are headed to a research lab attached to the hospital. Bacteria can't be killed by some of our strongest antibiotics. One woman survived a suicide bombing in Brussels only to almost die and her wounds got infected with a superbug. The bacteria that almost killed her was the same species that I'm staring at right now.

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