Show 1250: Antimicrobial Resistant Infections Could Be the Next Pandemic

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Everyone is weary of the coronavirus pandemic and ready to be done with it. So the news that a new pandemic is already slowly unfolding is unwelcome. But unless we pay attention and do what we can to reverse the growing trend of antimicrobial resistant infections, they could end up causing even more death and […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com
0:14.0	For the first time in a year, we are hopeful the end of the pandemic is in sight,
0:20.0	but are we prepared for the next one?
0:22.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with terror. But are we prepared for the next one?
0:22.7	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Infections that don't respond to antimicrobial treatment are already becoming more common.
0:40.0	What will doctors do when the antibiotics and antifungal drugs they've relied upon for decades stop working?
0:47.9	Hospitals are among the most secretive organizations in the country.
0:52.0	Trying to figure out the true cost of treatment is
0:54.8	extremely challenging. Prescription drugs have become budget busters. What can we do to reverse this trend? Coming up on the people's pharmacy could antimicrobial resistant infections become the next
1:08.4	pandemic. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Public Health Experts' Health Headlines,
1:17.0	Public health experts have been worried about the evolution of SARS COV2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19.
1:25.0	Some of the new variants that have arisen may have the potential to be transmitted more easily.
1:31.0	That appears to be the case with B117, a variant first identified in the UK.
1:37.0	Researchers in Great Britain looked at genomes from over a thousand COVID-positive nasal swabsabs and found that most people had only one or two
1:45.6	variants but a few had numerous mutated viral genomes.
1:51.6	Mutations in the spike protein have scientists concerned because they could help the virus
1:56.6	evade the immune system. The variant called P1 first detected in Brazil is worrisome in this regard.
2:04.0	A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine has allayed some fears.
2:09.0	According to the manufacturers, the Pfizer Biointec vaccine is effective against P1 in laboratory tests.
2:18.4	The researchers used serum from vaccinated volunteers and found that it neutralized the virus.
2:25.2	A small study published last November in Jama disappeared almost without a trace.
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