Escape The Ant Colony
Here's a really bad science joke that I've heard. Why don't ants get sick? Because they have little anty bodies. I'll get my coat. That's not the only link between ants and disease prevention. I was listening to a podcast the other day where the discussion was about antibiotic resistance. This is a huge problem, which has lots of doctors and scientists are very worried. Antibiotic resistance is when antibiotics no longer kill bacteria. You can take the tablets, but they won't make you better. To understand why doctors are concerned we need to look back at what life was like before antibiotics. In 1941 Police Constable Albert Alexander was injured in an air raid. A small cut near his mouth became infected and he was taken to hospital. The infection got worse, and he developed sepsis, which is when your immune system overreacts to an infection and starts attacking your own organs. Most people who develop sepsis die. Doctors in 1941 were used to seeing people...