• Question: If you could make one new antibiotic to kill bacteria/virus without causing super bugs or having resistance what would you choose to prevent?

    Asked by Lucytweddell to ☣ Danna on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Danna Gifford

      Danna Gifford answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Hello Lucytweddell,

      If I could, I would choose to develop a new antibiotic to kill fungal infections. There are only a couple of antibiotics–they’re called “antifungals”–that work on fungus, and diseases caused by fungi kill more than a million people every year, that’s about 150 people every hour of the day. Although fungi grow slower than bacteria, they can also become resistant to antifungals. It’s an area of research that needs more study.

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