Fighting Back Against Killer Superbugs
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Many antibiotic pills we’ve relied on for decades to treat infections no longer work. It’s a global crisis. Hospitals are increasingly stumped. But where do resistant bugs come from?
In our final episode of this season’s Prognosis, Bloomberg Senior Editor Jason Gale takes us to Copenhagen, Denmark, where one scientist searches for clues in airplane waste from all over the globe. He found killer superbugs thriving in healthy people from countries far and wide. Even in countries where antibiotic use has been strictly controlled, resistant bacteria have made their way to people via the food chain. Yet it’s not too late to turn back
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
| 0:05.3 | Well, today's your lucky day. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
| 0:17.9 | We have fun. We get weird, and we want you to join us. |
| 0:21.4 | You can listen to Many Stuff the Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:42.4 | That's saying, we are what we eat? |
| 0:44.6 | Well, there's truth to it. |
| 0:48.3 | We ingest bacteria constantly when we're eating and drinking. |
| 0:54.2 | Our stomach acid helps fend off disease-causing germs, but bugs often make it through to the intestines. |
| 1:00.4 | They can become established as part of our normal gut bacteria, the microbes that help digest food, make vitamins, and support the immune system. Increasingly, the bugs taking up residence |
| 1:06.7 | in our intestines possess special powers. They're developing resistance to antibiotics, in large part because of the overuse of those |
| 1:15.3 | medicines. |
| 1:16.7 | The risk of harboring drug-evading bowel-dwelling bacteria varies from country to country. |
| 1:22.6 | Depending on where we travel, we can return from a trip with some unwanted guests. |
| 1:29.8 | Sometimes the threat is right on our doorstep. Welcome to Prognosis, a podcast about health and science, medical technology, |
| 1:39.3 | and the changes that are underway across the globe. I'm your host, Michelle Fay-Cortez. |
| 1:45.7 | This season, we've been focusing on the loss |
| 1:47.6 | of our infection-fighting medications |
| 1:49.5 | because of antimicrobial resistance. |
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