New campaign to fight superbugs

August 26, 2019

Antibiotic-resistant infections kill an estimated 160,000 people a year. The Working to Fight AMR campaign is a new effort to get more drugs in development to fight these types of superbugs and to reduce the overuse of antibiotics. Greg Frank, director of the new campaign shared why they want Congress to take action now on the issue.

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