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We can\u2019t say we weren\u2019t warned.\xa0More than 75 years ago, bacteriologist Rene Dubos cautioned that misuse of antibiotics could breed drug-resistant bacteria \u2013 and he has been proved prescient.\xa0In this episode: the rise of superbugs, why we ignored the warnings about them, how some are enlisting an old therapy to fight back, and whether we\u2019ll heed history\u2019s lessons in the face of a future pandemic.\xa0Plus, a weird unforeseen effect of antibiotics being investigated at the Body Farm.\xa0\nGuests:\n\n\n Fred Turek\xa0- Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Department of Neurobology, Northwestern University\n\n\n Jennifer DeBruyn\xa0- Microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, who also works at the Anthropology Research Facility, a.k.a.\xa0the Body Farm\xa0\xa0\n\n\nSteffanie Strathdee\xa0- Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego,\xa0and co-author (with Tom Patterson) of\xa0\xa0\u201cThe Perfect Predator: A Scientist\u2019s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug\u201d\n\n\nTom Patterson\xa0- Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Steffanie Strathdee) of\xa0\u201cThe Perfect Predator: A Scientist\u2019s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug\u201d\n\n\nMark Honigsbaum\xa0- Medical Historian, journalist, and lecturer at City University, London, and author of \u201cThe Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris\u201d\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices