Health
Meet the scientist who defeated ‘the world’s worst bacteria’ to save her husband’s life – BBC Focus Magazine
As she told us on the Science Focus Podcast, Professor Steffanie Strathdee tackled a superbug as it threatened to kill her partner.
Sitting on the top tier of a cruise ship in Egypt, Professor Steffanie Strathdee and her husband were enjoying their meal and looking forward to sightseeing on their final day. It had been a dream holiday for Steffanies husband, Tom, to explore Egypt and the pair of researchers had finally made it over in 2015. A few hours after their idyllic dinner, however, Tom suddenly fell terribly ill.
Professor Steffanie Strathdee, an infectious disease epidemiologist, supposed it was from the seafood theyd…
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