Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health in the 21st century.

With overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and agriculture, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites are evolving to resist the drugs designed to kill them.

This means infections that were once easily treated with antibiotics are becoming harder—and sometimes impossible—to cure.

But there’s a surprising hero emerging in the fight against antimicrobial resistance: the black soldier fly. Continue reading