Superbug crisis threatens to kill 10 million per year by 2050. Scientist
s may have a solution
blackspruty4w3j4bzyhlk24jr32wbpnfo3oyywn4ckwylo4hkcyy4yd.onion Cynthia Horton’s earaches are the stuff of nightmare
s.
“I can wake up from my sleep in horrible pain, like I’m having a root canal with no anesthesi
a,” she said. “When I sit up, my ear is often weeping with infection, even oozing blood.”
Already weakened by a lifelong battle with lupus, Horton’s immune system was devastate
d by rounds of radiation and chemother
apy after a 2003 surgery for a cancerous tumor in her ear.
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Ear infection
s became the norm, usually eased by a round of antibioti
cs. But as the years passed, the bacteria in 61-year old Horton’s ear became resistant to antibioti
cs, often leaving her with little to no relief.
“These multi-drug-resistant superbugs can cause chronic infection
s in individua
ls for months to years to sometimes decades. It’s ridiculou
s just how virulent some of these bacteria get over time,” said Dwayne Roach, assistant professor of bacteriop
hages, infectiou
s disease and immunolog
y at San Diego State Universit
y.
Last year doctors offered to treat Horton’s infection with one of nature’s oldest predators — tiny tripod-looking viruses called phages designed to find, attack and gobble up bacteria.
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