Antibiotics are failing us: here’s what comes next
Description
This one’s probably a bit of a bleaker episode, but it’s about something absolutely fascinating that we should know more about: Antimicrobial resistance. By 2050, it could kill more people than cancer.
Now, in this episode I use the terms antimicrobial and antibiotic interchangeably. Technically they’re not the same thing — but for the sake of this episode, they are.
This is a huge issue we’re all facing, and most of us are completely unaware of it.
In this episode, I share:
- The history of antibiotic overuse
- What antimicrobial resistance actually is
- The 3 types of microbial resistance — and why they should scare us
- The pathogens that are really scary (because they resist antibiotics)
- Who will suffer the most from rising antimicrobial resistance
- How the anti-vax movement is making it harder to slow the spread
- How gene-editing technology is creating precision antibiotics
- The best solution we have to this crisis
- How geopolitics influenced Western scepticism about phages
- Why it’s hard to use phages in Western medicine
- And the few (but fixable) problems with phages
Key Quotes
“More than 1.3 million people every year already die because antibiotics no longer work for them.”
More info
I mentioned the book the good virus which you can check out here.
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