A ‘exciting and terrifying’ (Scientific American) memoir of one woman’s extraordinary effort to save her husband’s life-and the discovery of the forgotten cure which has the potential to save millions more.

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were travelling in Egypt when Tom came straight down with a abdomen bug. What initially seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly flipped vital, and by the time Tom had been transferred via crisis medevac to about AN IDEAL Predator: A Scientist’s Competition to save lots of Her Hubby from a Lethal Superbug: A Memoir the world-class infirmary at UC NORTH PARK, where both he and Steffanie proved helpful, blood work exposed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the most harmful, antibiotic- resistant bacterias in the world.

Frantic, Steffanie combed through research old and fresh and found phage therapy: the theory that the right disease, aka ‘the ideal predator,’ can kill even the most lethal bacteria. Phage treatment experienced fallen right out of favor almost a century ago, after antibiotic make use of went mainstream. Right now, with time operating out, Steffanie appealed to phage research workers all over the world for help. She found allies on the FDA, research workers from Texas A&M, and a clandestine Navy biomedical center-and jointly they resurrected a forgotten cure.

A nail-biting medical mystery, AN IDEAL Predator is a story of love and survival against all odds, and the (re)finding of a powerful new weapon in the global superbug crisis.