No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life | CNN health

CNN health | No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life

(CNN) – In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection.

After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too racked with bacteria to live.

“And I have this conversation that nobody ever wants to have with their loved one,” Strathdee told an audience recently at Life Itself, a health and wellness event presented in partnership with CNN.  –read more– 

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