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Killer superbugs are coming for you | Opinion

All told, drug-resistant microbes infect almost three million Americans each year and kill 162,000 of them.

Over the years, your doctors have prescribed the same treatments over and over — and we eventually evolved to resist them, making certain superbugs like CRE, or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, virtually untreatable.
Over the years, your doctors have prescribed the same treatments over and over — and we eventually evolved to resist them, making certain superbugs like CRE, or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, virtually untreatable.Read moreDreamstime / MCT
    by Greg Frank, For the Los Angeles Times
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