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Maren McKenna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
474 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Radiolab
Staph Retreat

However it got there, it was amazing.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

It was called a miracle drug, right?

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

I mean, it was just, it really was a moment when the world changed.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

When Fleming was put on the cover of Time magazine.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

This was 1944, height of World War II.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

But, and this is, I had no idea about this.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

Virtually at the exact same time when Fleming's face is on the cover of Time magazine, like two months later, this Stanford researcher publishes that he has found five different strains of staph.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

that do not respond to penicillin.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

This is happening while he's on the cover?

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

Virtually the exact same moment.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

And it's the first sign that Staph has responded to the penicillin in the world by developing resistance.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

It's almost like, uh... Separatist or Stormwheeler?

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

The era of penicillin was over before it began.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

Before it's even released to the general public.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

And in 1957, in Cleveland, some scientists gather together.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

And they are in a panic.