The post-antibiotic apocalypse is nigh

Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we’re going to have to learn to live without them once again. And it’s going to get nasty Just 65 years ago, David Livermore’s paternal grandmother died following an operation to remove her appendix. It didn’t go well, but it was not the surgery that killed her. She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre …