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Transcripts For MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show 20190702

In 1928 in his lab at st. Marys, Alexander Fleming had a very fortuitous and ultimately worldchanging encounter with dirty dishes. He had been working with a fairly nasty strain of staff bacteria in his lab when he found quite by accident that one of the culture plates he had been working with i guess had been neglected or somehow crosscontaminated. In any case, it had started to grow a bit of mold. Under normal circumstances, that might be cause for regret. Oh, no, this is spoiled, or you might be mildly grossed out. That would be cause for throwing that out or cleaning up that culture plate. But what fleming noticed that day in 1928 and what ultimately changed the world was on that culture plate which he had been growing the staff bacteria, there was a little splotch around that spot of mold. And in that little splotch spreading out from the edges of the mold, there was no bacteria. Which meant that that mold was killing the ....

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