In the haze of grief and pain, Shader Smith found herself looking through 2,500 pages of a journal her daughter had kept since high school. Worldwide, antimicrobial resistance kills an estimated 1.27 million people directly every year and contributes to the deaths of millions more. Shader Smith is acutely aware of what we stand to lose when medicine can no longer save us. We just have to all call it the same thing,” said Shader Smith, who works as a publicist and marketing consultant. “People can easily understand and relate to actual experiences,” said Michael Craig, director of the CDC’s Antimicrobial Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 18, 2024 10:05 UTC