Over half of the therapeutic antibiotics used today were discovered in a brief 20-year period. A fortuitous discovery in the 1940s led to a global rush for miracle medicines in the soil. That wondrous method ended in the late 1960s. And unfortunately we have yet to find another. In today’s video, let us look back at the golden age of antibiotics when people spanned the globe for the next big drug.
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