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Could antibiotic-resistant ’superbugs’ become a bigger killer than cancer?

Could antibiotic-resistant ’superbugs’ become a bigger killer than cancer?

CBS 60 MINUTES | When antibiotics were first used in the 1940s they were a revolution in medicine. Before that, diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis were often a death sentence, and even an infected scratch could be fatal. Since then, antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives. But now many of these drugs are becoming ineffective.

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