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Science 29 min

Why Antibiotics Are Running Out

The miracle drug is failing. Not because of biology. Because nobody can profit from saving us.

The drugs that ended the age of death-by-infection are losing their power. A predictable catastrophe decades in the making, driven not by scientific failure but by a business model so broken that companies go bankrupt for solving the problem. This is the story of a warning given, received, and ignored for eighty years.

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