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One of the most significant medical discoveries of the century – Fleming identifies the mould ... The health of the British people is transformed. The British VII: War and Peace, Sky Atlantic 2012
There is an invisible world. The microscopic world of bacteria. Some of these bacteria are going rogue. Becoming super-bugs we can’t control. Antibiotics are one of the miracles of modern medicine. And scientists now worry that super-bugs are emerging which are becoming totally resistant to these drugs. Horizon: Defeating the Superbugs, BBC 2012
Over the last decade scientists have witnessed outbreaks around the world where antibiotics we’ve relied on in the past have stopped working. These outbreaks have been caused by new types of bacteria. ibid.
A super-bug can soon become a citizen of the world. ibid.
We are beginning to see this level of resistance all over the world. ibid.
More than three-quarters of the antibiotics we regularly use in hospitals today were taken from microbes in the soil. ibid.
Phage medicines are still in the early stages. ibid.
South of Moscow north of Turkey scientists in the Republic of Georgia may hold our last defence against the super-bugs, against the advance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. From this sewage come a medicine. A medicine made from a virus. A virus that cures. Horizon: Phage – The Virus that Cures, BBC 1997
The more antibiotics we use the more resistant bacteria becomes. ibid.
No fundamentally new antibiotic has been discovered for more than thirty years. ibid.
Phage medicine had its hey-day in the 1980s; it was manufactured in factories across the Soviet Union. ibid.
By 1941 Phage was still thought too unreliable to be useful by researchers in the West. ibid.
The beauty of Phage as a medicine is that they are alive so they can change just as bacteria do. ibid.
This could be a key new drug for the West. ibid.
Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era ... the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. Margaret Chan
What happens when the drugs stop working? Tonight: When the Drugs Don’t Work, ITV 2013
Antibiotics are the bedrock of modern medicine ... There’s growing concern they are losing their effectiveness. ibid.
Have you ever taken an antibiotic? And did you really need this miracle medicine? Tonight Panorama investigates the rise of the superbugs. Panorama: Antibiotic Apocalypse, BBC 2015
Is farming fuelling one of the biggest health threats facing humanity? We meet the people for whom the drugs have stopped working. Superbugs are on the rise … Panorama: Antibiotic Crisis, BBC 2016
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No-one thought bacteria were going to become resistant. Bonnie Bassler
Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread. A P J Abdul Kalam
Resistance to antibiotics poses a ‘major global threat’ to public health, says a new report by the World Health Organization.
It analysed data from 114 countries and said resistance was happening now ‘in every region of the world’.
It described a ‘post-antibiotic era’, where people die from simple infections that have been treatable for decades.
There were likely to be ‘devastating’ implications unless ‘significant’ action was taken urgently, it added. BBC news online article 30th April 2014, ‘Antibiotic Resistance Now Global Threat WHO Warns’
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful ... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated. Alexander Fleming
For more than seventy years we’ve waged war against bacterial infections using antibiotics. But it’s a war we’re now losing. Drug-resistant superbugs are spreading. Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs, BBC 2017
Threaten to send modern medicine back to the dark ages. ibid.
The by-product of war between microbes. ibid.
Our guts and intestines are home to at least a thousand species of bacteria. ibid.
There’s a wonder drug we all rely on. It fight infections. And makes it possible for us to have life-saving operations. It’s vital in modern medicine … But we’ve taken them for granted. We’ve been overusing antibiotics, and the bacteria that cause infections are being resistance to them. The Truth About Antibiotics, BBC 2019
Antibiotics only work against bacteria. ibid.
We do desperately need new antibiotics. ibid.