222: Matt McCarthy | The Race to Stop a Superbug Epidemic

222: Matt McCarthy | The Race to Stop a Superbug Epidemic

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Matt McCarthy (@drmattmccarthy) is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, a staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic.

What We Discuss with Matt McCarthy:

• How antibiotics are abused on a large scale • by industrial agriculture, prescription-happy doctors, and mysophobic hand washers.

• Why antibiotic abuse is resulting in the fast-track evolution of once easily vanquished bacteria into superbugs from which we have no known protection. •

• How herd immunity works • , and why you may be at risk for contracting a once-eradicated disease thanks to anti-vaccination propaganda.

• Why the FDA approval process takes so long for new drugs to safely come to market, and how this hinders innovation in a profit-driven pharmaceutical market. •

• How genetic editing through new CRISPR technology • may be our best hope for quickly reacting to rapidly adapting superbugs.

• And much more…

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