seattle, only for his doctors to discover a microscopic organism that could kill him. >> ricci: my doctor said, "david to tell you something really hard. you have an infection we've never seen before." >> williams: doctors in the u.s. hadn't seen much of this? >> ricci: they'd never seen it, they didn't, they didn't even know how to treat it. >> williams: the infection growing inside ricci's leg was caused by bacteria with genetic mutations that turned them into superbugs, resistant to 19 different antibiotics. his doctor told us that in desperation, he had to reach back in time, to an antibiotic called colistin that was discovered in the 1940s. for decades, it was rarely used, because in high doses, it can cause irreversible organ damage. ricci suffered kidney failure three times. what did it do to you? >> ricci: it felt like my organs were disintegrating. it just felt really, really strange, something i'd never felt before, like i was dying from the inside out. >> williams: but after six months, the colistin helped beat back ricci's infection, and he learned to walk again. we went to the neighborhoo

that has forced her to use colistin, the toxic last-line riccbiotic given to david ricci.an infection and the only antibiotic that is sensitive to it is colistin? c yeah. >> reporter: that is the only t e that will work? >> yes. >> reporter: and is he likely to recover? e yeah, he is improving. >> reporter: he is improving. >> so, the baby is improving. he is opening eyes, looking here and there. and hopefully by tomorrow, we will take him out of the ventilator. f reporter: that is good news zar this baby. but the world health organization warns, our arsenal of antibiotics is running out. and we could be facing a post- antibiotic era. >> much of what we consider modern medicine depends on effective antibiotics. it is not just about newborns dying of infections in far-away places. r> reporter: are there modern medical procedures that we take for granted, that simply wouldn't be possible if we didn't have access to effective antibiotics? >> everything that we think of, whether it is cancer, chemotherapy, transplants, hip replacements, knee replacements, emlorectal surgery, a

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