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Cold War Resistance - The International Struggle Over Antibiotics (Hardcover)
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Cold War Resistance - The International Struggle Over Antibiotics (Hardcover)
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In June 1941 a pair of British scientists boarded a plane for
America with World War II raging all around them. They carried a
precious commodity - penicillin - and the knowledge that it would
change history. Once Washington understood its significance, the
Office of Science Research and Development, in conjunction with
British counterparts, assumed control; penicillin became a
top-secret matter of national security, second only to the atomic
bomb in importance. Because its patent was in the public domain,
the American government decided to restrict the actual production
of the antibiotic, rather than the drug itself. Meanwhile, the
Soviet Union did everything possible to obtain penicillin of its
own but ultimately fell short. In Cold War Resistance, Marc Landas
uncovers the dark history behind the discovery, production, and
distribution of antibiotics. In 1949 America embargoed any material
deemed of “strategic importance” - including antibiotics - from
going to Communist countries, effectively shutting off the Soviet
Union from a modern medical miracle. This inadvertently created a
system of Soviet satellite antibiotic factories among Warsaw Pact
countries that produced sub-par antibiotics, which fostered an
environment conducive to antibiotic resistance. Today the number of
effective antibiotics available is dwindling, and the state of
antibiotic resistance is worsening. While by no means the cause,
the Cold War played a critical role in putting in place the
oft-cited conditions that led to resistance - use in factory farms,
over-prescription, and the non-existent antibiotic pipeline.
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