Just imagine your child develops abdominal pain, and the doctor diagnoses “Appendicitis”. You and the doctor will be in a dilemma, because performing an appendectomy using keyhole surgery is no longer safe - it has become a threat. Exactly.

You were terrified because the post-antibiotic era has officially arrived. The surgery itself goes perfectly. I mean, the surgeon is skilled, but the hospital environment—air vents, bed rails, chairs in the waiting room—are teeming with microscopic multi-drug resistant pathogens, creating a nightmare scenario. It really is.

The simple act of opening the human body has become a lethal gamble. And in this bleak near future, common surgeries are now a leading cause of death due to antimicrobial resistance, or AMR. It is profoundly chilling. And I think the most unsettling part of reviewing our resear ...