VIDEO: Maryn McKenna: What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore?

Maryn McKenna held a TED talk on the worldwide problem of antimicrobial resistance. Watch her video below.

McKenna talks about the post-antibiotic world – the increasing drug-resistant bacterial cases, and how the overuse of antibiotics since penicillin is now costing the lives of many. Still, there are several ways to tackle this problem, which McKenna highlights.

Maryn McKenna is a journalist and an author who reports on public health, global health and food policy. She also writes on the same topics in magazines such as National Geographic, The New York Times, The Guardian, Nature, WIRED, and so on. Read more about Maryn McKenna here.

You can watch the video here.