What would you do if you found a cure for a harmful bacterium (e.g. E. coli)?

Question: What would you do if you found a cure for a harmful bacterium (e.g. E. coli)?
- Keywords:
  bacteria,
  cure,
  harmful
Asked by anon-236150 to Lucy on 14 Mar 2020.
- Lucy Kelly answered on 14 Mar 2020:
  
  If a treatment was found to kill harmful bacteria, scientists publish their findings in papers in scientific journals. Then we would try and find more money to study the cure and push it into clinical trials as a new drug treatment, hopefully this would work but many clinical trials fail.

Question: What would you do if you found a cure for a harmful bacterium (e.g. E. coli)?