India Today (18th March 2013)
Book Author Aroon Purie
DescriptionThe discovery of penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, was one of thernmost influential events of the 20th century. Its commercialisationrnbetween 1943 and 1945, the final years of World War II, brought about arnradical improvement in global life expectancy. It was the first time in humanrnhistory that people no longer died because of an infected battle wound, or of arnsevere throat infection or of tuberculosis, all mortal afflictions until Scottishrnbiologist Alexander Fleming and other collaborators gave the world arnmiracle cure against dangerous bacteria..