To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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slash subscribe. It can be one of the worst days of someone's life to get a cancer diagnosis.

For a long time patients at least knew, chemotherapy was one path to being treated. In some countries

that path has become a lot riskier. That's because of the emergence of

bacteria with the most extreme form of antibiotic resistance.

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.

We don't know what to do. The world doesn't know what to do in the scenario. That's the if you're talking about the

post antibiotic era you first see that in cancer patients. I'm Jason Gail

a senior editor with Bloomberg News.

On this new season of prognosis, we look at the spread of infections around the world

that even our most potent antimicrobial medicines can't stop. It's been described as a silent tsunami

of catastrophic proportions and it's happening faster than scientists previously thought.

The situation is getting worse, definitely getting worse because the drug resistance

rate, the super bug rate is increasing on a daily basis.

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