• Question: Are there medicines to treat diseases caused by bacteria?

    Asked by Maria to Praveen, Gemma, Cristina on 19 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Cristina Villa del Campo

      Cristina Villa del Campo answered on 19 Nov 2015:


      Hi Maria,
      Thanks for your question! Actually there are! They are antibiotics and they were discovered by chance by a scientist called Alexander Fleming. He found that some funghi killed bacteria. So he found how and isolated the first antibiotic!

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