Every year, over 2 million people in the United States develop infections that are resistant to treatment, and approximately 23,000 people die as a result.
These statistics have prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to deem drug resistance “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.”
Therefore, researchers are hard at work trying to develop ingenious ways of tackling so-called superbugs — bacteria that have become immune to antibiotic treatment.
