Rise of the Superbugs
We are headed towards a post-antibiotic era, a world where common infections could become life-threatening. That's the message from The World Health Organisation, but are we listening?Rise of the Superbugs is a six-part series about antimicrobial resistance or "superbugs, telling the scary (but solvable) story of superbugs.The series explores our medical systems, through personal stories, waterways and acts of (human) resistance. We’ll talk to experts as we dig into our medicine cabinets, hospitals and backyards, the known past and predicted futures.Rise of the Superbugs reveals where the media has gone wrong in telling the superbug story and why we need to retell it.Host: Dr Britta Jorgensen. Producers: Sarah Mashman and Silvi Vann-Wall. Executive Producer: Professor Mia Lindgren.
Rise of the Superbugs
How can we retell the superbug story?
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Rise of the Superbugs
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Season 1
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Episode 6
There are so many different terms used to talk about antimicrobial resistance - AMR, multidrug resistance, One Health, antibiotic resistance, superbugs. It can be really confusing. In this episode we ask: how can we retell the superbug story? In this final episode of Rise of the Superbugs we're taking you behind the scenes and into the making of this series. It's been a bit of an experiment because it's part journalism and part academic research.
Host and producer: Dr Britta Jorgensen.
Producers: Sarah Mashman and Silvi Vann-Wall.
Executive Producer: Professor Mia Lindgren.