Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs
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🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
On this new season of Prognosis, we look at the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. You're probably more likely to have heard of these as superbugs. Their rise has been described as a silent tsunami of catastrophic proportions. We travel to countries on the frontline of the crisis, and explore how hospitals and doctors around the world are fighting back. Prognosis’ new season launches Sept. 5.
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| 0:52.0 | with the most extreme form of antibiotic resistance. |
| 0:56.0 | We are facing a difficult scenario to give chemotherapy and cure the cancer and get a drug risk infection and the patient dying of infections. |
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| 1:25.1 | We look at the spread of infections around the world that even our most potent |
| 1:30.5 | Antimicrobial medicines can't stop. |
| 1:33.2 | It's been described as a silent tsunami |
| 1:36.4 | of catastrophic proportions |
| 1:38.6 | and it's happening faster than scientists previously thought. |
| 1:43.0 | The situation is getting worse, definitely getting worse because the drug resistance rate, |
| 1:48.0 | the super bug rate is increasing on a daily basis. It's increasing. So the number of patients dying are really high. |
| 1:58.0 | That's Dr. Abdul Gifour, one of India's fiercest anti-Superbug Crusaders. |
| 2:05.7 | This season we look at how researchers in the United States and elsewhere are looking for ways |
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