by Meredith Bauer, UF/IFAS Communications Senior Public Relations Specialist
In the fight against superbugs – microbes that are resistant to multiple medicines like antibiotics and pose a global public health threat – researchers are working in labs to create remedies. But just as important is consumer education, especially among the younger generations who may not understand the consequences. That is why University of Florida researchers are bringing lessons right to high school students in Alachua County.
“Antibiotics are in every household, but antimicrobial resistance is nowhere in the public school curriculum,” said Sanil Nadar, a biology teacher at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School and a Ph.D. student in the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ (UF/IFAS) Department of Microbiology and Cell Science. “That has to change.”
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