In this Tuesday’s Nature event in Second Life, join us with Dr Brad Spellberg for a look at the increasingly important issue of antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotic-resistant microbes infect more than 2 million Americans and kill over 100,000 each year. They spread rapidly, even in such seemingly harmless places as high school locker rooms, where they infect young athletes. And throughout the world, many more people are dying from these infections. Astoundingly, at the same time that antibiotic resistant infections are skyrocketing in incidence—creating a critical need for new antibiotics—research and development of new antibiotics has ground to a screeching halt.
Join Dr. Brad Spellberg — an infectious diseases specialist and member of a national task force charged with attacking antibiotic resistant infections—as he tells the story of this potentially grave public health crisis.
Title: Rising Plague
Date: Tuesday 6th October, 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm BST
Speaker: Dr Brad Spellberg, UCLA
Location: Nature Amphitheatre, Second Life
Contact: Joanna Wombat / j.scott@nature.com
I don’t think my little MacBook can pull Second Life anymore (it’s even having trouble with YouTube), but if it does I might check this out!
Oh, a MacBook struggling with Youtube must be sick :-(
I’m sure yours is far from this, but I hate it when computers you’ve become attached to start slowly dying – I always feel like such a terrible person, throwing away an old friend…!
My first-generation MacBook’s graphics card wasn’t even supported by SL, so I didn’t bother with it until I had a desktop Mac.