To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With everything that was happening this past winter, it would have been easy to miss the introduction of S. 4760: The PASTEUR Act. On December 9, U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA) introduced the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Upsurging Resistance (PASTEUR) Act to encourage the development of critically needed antimicrobials and antibiotics. 1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2019 report Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (“CDC Report”), “more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result.”