Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What we're up against --|t Fifty million dead --|t Time and space --|t Friends in far places --|t Near the seed vault --|t Keys to Karachi --|t War and peace --|t From the phages of history --|t Sulfa and the war --|t Mold juice --|t Tablets from tears --|t The new pandemic --|t The man in the blue Mustang --|t Honeymoon --|t Mating bacteria --|t S is for Soviet --|t The Navy boys --|t From animals to humans --|t The Norwegian salmon --|t Closer to Sydney than to Perth --|t A classless problem --|t The stubborn wounds of war --|t Counting the dead --|t Clues in the sewage --|t X is for extensive --|t Too much or too little? --|t Visa not required --|t The dry pipeline --|t New ways to do old business --|t A three-hundred-year-old idea --|t Spoonful of sugar --|t Conflict inside the cells --|t Security or service? --|t One world, one health --|t Bankers, doctors, and diplomats.