I thought about lots of my friends or my colleagues who had been pregnant in London

and how much fear they had of giving birth in hospitals here and the situation there was 10 times worse.

My name is Madeline Davis and I'm the Health and Science Editor at the was 10 times worse.

My name's Madeline Davis, and I'm the Health and Science Editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Maddie is a colleague of mine at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and I often

overhear her talking with editors using names of diseases or complicated pharmaceutical products that I've never heard of.

So it was something of a reassurance to hear that even she had to work hard to understand what these terms meant.

I think there were months and months where there was so much jargon and I didn't say any medicine.

I did a degree in English lit which just involve reading classic books then sort of giving my opinion and rounding up

the criticism on them so it was completely different I had worked in health reporting for a while

so I knew the structure of the NHS and how hospital departments worked in things, but the actual subject matter

of, I didn't really know what staphilococcus orius was, for example, and I hadn't realized

that E. coli was such a big infectious killer in the UK. So it just involved a period of asking

medical professionals to repeat themselves about a hundred times whenever they

spoke one sentence. For several years now, Maddie has been doggedly reporting on a little

talked about but very scary issue. The rise of antibiotic resistant superbugs. Infections that are

impervious to any of the drugs we currently expect to cure things.

There is a new warning out this morning about the growing dangers of superbugs.

Five people have died in Britain whilst infected with a new type of superbug.

They're diseases which can kill and we're running out of drugs with which to treat them.

This is a global issue, something that could affect the whole world.

So we'd been working in the UK and written a few stories, but what we realised was that the

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