South Dakota doctors, and patients, are locked in a life-or-death fight with antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
The menace isn’t unique to South Dakota, of course. Antibiotic-resistant infections cause more than 2.8 million infections every year in the United States and contribute to nearly 170,000 deaths.
Read more in The Dakota Scout.
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