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  • Jean Lee, a PhD student at Melbourne’s Doherty Institute, inspects the superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. – A superbug resistant to all known antibiotics that can cause “severe” infections or even death is spreading undetected through hospital wards across the world, scientists in Australia warned on September 3. Researchers at the University of Melbourne discovered three variants of the multidrug-resistant bug in samples from 10 countries, including strains in Europe that cannot be tamed by any drug currently on the market. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo credit should read WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    To avoid the superbug pandemic, we must fix the business model for new antibiotics

    By Michelle McMurry-Heath and Henry Skinner