Show 1192: How a Scary Fungus Is Threatening the World

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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You may have heard about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. They can greatly complicate the treatment of infections. But have you ever heard of antifungal-resistant fungus? Infectious disease experts knew nothing about a scary fungus, Candida auris, less than two decades ago. It has acquired resistance to a number of potent antifungal medications. Consequently, it now poses threats […]

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1:05.0	Have you ever heard of Candida Aaurus? We didn't think so. Why should you be concerned about this scary
1:16.3	fungus? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Infectious disease experts didn't know anything about Candida Hours just 15 years ago, but it certainly has
1:35.2	their attention now because it's become resistant to antifungal medications.
1:39.8	Journalist Matt Richtel has been investigating the development of antimicrobial resistance.
1:46.0	10 million people will die by the year 2050 from drug-resistant infection and that exceeds the projected number that will die
1:55.3	from cancer in that year. Coming up on the people's pharmacy and in-depth look at a
2:01.0	scary fungus that's threatening the world.
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