The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A ‘fascinating and terrifying’ (Scientific American) memoir of 1 woman’s extraordinary work to save her husband’s life-and the discovery of the forgotten cure which has the potential to save millions more.

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her hubby, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came straight down with a belly bug. What initially seemed like an instance of meals poisoning quickly switched essential, and by the time Tom have been transferred via crisis medevac to about The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Competition to Save Her Hubby from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked well, blood work revealed why modern medication was faltering: Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic- resistant bacteria in the globe.

Frantic, Steffanie combed through analysis old and fresh and found phage therapy: the theory that the right pathogen, aka ‘the ideal predator,’ can destroy actually the most lethal bacteria. Phage treatment acquired fallen out of favour almost a century ago, after antibiotic use went mainstream. Today, with time operating out, Steffanie appealed to phage researchers all over the world for help. She found allies at the FDA, analysts from Tx A&M, and a clandestine Navy biomedical center-and collectively they resurrected a neglected cure.

A nail-biting medical mystery, The Perfect Predator is a tale of love and survival against all odds, and the (re)finding of a robust new weapon in the global superbug crisis.