Dangerous Miracle : The Extraordinary History Of Antibiotics- and How We’re Burning Through Them – Liam Shaw

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Antibiotics. Invented by microbes. Mined by humans.

The discovery of antibiotics is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, saving millions of lives and changing the world forever.

But, unlike other drugs, each time we take antibiotics we use up a finite resource. And now we are running out.

This is the spellbinding story of how we learned to harness the fossil fuels of medicine – and an urgent call to adapt, so they can hold a place in our future.