The global superbug crisis isn’t on everyone’s radar like climate change is, but my family is trying to change that. I am an infectious disease epidemiologist, yet my experience with antimicrobial resistance was intensely personal. While my husband and I were on vacation in Egypt in 2015, he became infected with a rare bacteria I hadn’t seen since my petri plates in college back in the 1980s. It infected an abscess in his abdomen and threatened to take his life.
to know more