S2 E15: Superplants vs. Superbugs
b'After losing a leg as a toddler and struggling with repeated infections, Cassandra Quave became obsessed, even as a young child, with preventing infection. That obsession has led her from Florida\'s swamps to the Peruvian Amazon in pursuit of plants that can defeat antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Her stories are personal, riveting and inspiring, and they offer hope for a medical future that\'s quite different from our present.
Guest: Cassandra Quave, author of "The Plant Hunter: A Scientist\'s Quest for Nature\'s Next Medicines" and Associate Professor of Dermatology and Human Health at Emory School of Medicine'