>Superbug crisis threatens to kill 10 million per year by 2050. Scientists may have a solution >
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>Cynthia Horton¡¯s earaches are the stuff of nightmares. > >¡°I can wake up from my sleep in horrible pain, like I¡¯m having a root canal with no anesthesia,¡± she said. ¡°When I sit up, my ear is often weeping with infection, even oozing blood.¡± > >Already weakened by a lifelong battle with lupus, Horton¡¯s immune system was devastated by rounds of radiation and chemotherapy after a 2003 surgery for a cancerous tumor in her ear. >https://bs-gl-darknet.com >bs2webes.cc >Ear infections became the norm, usually eased by a round of antibiotics. But as the years passed, the bacteria in 61-year old Horton¡¯s ear became resistant to antibiotics, often leaving her with little to no relief. > >¡°These multi-drug-resistant superbugs can cause chronic infections in individuals for months to years to sometimes decades. It¡¯s ridiculous just how virulent some of these bacteria get over time,¡± said Dwayne Roach, assistant professor of bacteriophages, infectious disease and immunology at San Diego State University. > >Last year doctors offered to treat Horton¡¯s infection with one of nature¡¯s oldest predators tiny tripod-looking viruses called phages designed to find, attack and gobble up bacteria.