The Perfect Predator: A Scientists Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
The Perfect Predator: A Scientists Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug A "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her…
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientists Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
A "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic- resistant bacteria in the world.Frantic, Steffanie combed through research old and new and came across phage therapy: the idea that the right virus, aka