This is an audio cast of the updated front line program hunting the nightmare bacteria broadcast July 25th on PBS and online

tonight we are seeing now the emergence globally of some forms of bacteria that are effectively untreatable

each year at least two million people are infected with drug-resistant super bugs they had asked me to sign the papers to let her go and I did and at least 23,000 die from them

he had some bugs that they had never seen before we immediately went on high alert the equivalent of DEF CON-5

no matter what we did the bacteria was still spreading

front line continues it reporting on how we got here in overusing these antibiotics we have set ourselves up for the scenario that we find ourselves in now we're running out of antibiotics

the newest threats where did it come from we don't know exactly where the spectrary came from the economic realities there is an increasing recognition that antibiotics are not a good thing to run off a pure

pan-apocalyptic market and what happens now a lot of what we're doing requires resources if there is less money there are tough choices that have to be made

we could happen to your next door neighbor could happen to your child could happen to anybody those bacteria are out there

tonight on front line hunting the nightmare bacteria

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this is the story of three seemingly disconnected events beginning at the same time

what they each have in common is a type of infection that is becoming impossible to treat a type of infection that has triggered deadly outbreaks

even at one of our most prestigious hospitals it is a crisis that is spreading alarmingly fast threatening everyone even the healthy

our first story starts in Tucson Arizona in May 2011

Tonya Raricic

when I think about that time I think about spring

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