Medical Mysteries - Super Bugs: The Invisible War Against Drug-Resistant Germs and the Dawn of a Post-Antibiotic World

What if a paper cut could kill you? For nearly a century, we've been protected by a miracle. But the miracle is failing.From the pristine fortress of America's most advanced hospital, to the front lines of the war in Iraq; from the chrome and glass of a state-of-the-art procedure room, to the churning guts of a pig on a factory farm in China—a new kind of plague is silently spreading across the globe.Medical Mysteries: Super Bugschronicles the rise of drug-resistant pathogens through a series of gripping, true-life detective stories. Follow the epidemiologists, doctors, and scientists hunting the microbial assassins that have outsmarted our best defenses. These are dispatches from a hidden war against an invisible enemy that threatens to end modern medicine as we know it. Without effective antibiotics, there is no safe surgery, no cancer chemotherapy, no organ transplantation.This isn't a dystopian fantasy. The post-antibiotic era is already here. This book is a harrowing look at the global crisis and a powerful warning that our greatest medical achievement is on the verge of collapse. The war is here. The enemy is at the gate.Read more