WEBVTT - Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs

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<v Speaker 1>It can be one of the worst days of someone's

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<v Speaker 1>life to get a cancer diagnosis. For a long time,

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<v Speaker 1>patients at least new chemotherapy was one path to being treated.

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<v Speaker 1>In some countries, that path has become a lot riskier.

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<v Speaker 1>That's because of the emergence of bacteria with the most

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<v Speaker 1>extreme form of antibodic resistance. We are facing a difficult scenario.

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<v Speaker 1>Do give chemotherapy and cure the cancer and get ad

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<v Speaker 1>regorously infection and the patient dying of infections. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what to do. The world doesn't know what to

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<v Speaker 1>do in the scenario. But that's the if you're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about the past antibiotic Europe. You first see that in

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<v Speaker 1>cancer Patients. On Jason Gale, a senior editor with Bloomberg News,

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<v Speaker 1>on this new season of Prognosis, we look at the

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<v Speaker 1>spread of infections around the world that even our most

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<v Speaker 1>potent anti microbial medicines can't stop. It's being described as

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<v Speaker 1>a silent tsunami of catastrophic proportions, and it's happening faster

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<v Speaker 1>than scientists previously thought. The situation is getting worse, definitely

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<v Speaker 1>getting worse, because the drug or systems read the superbug

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<v Speaker 1>grade is increasing. One a daily basis. It's increasing, so

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<v Speaker 1>the number of measures dying are really high. That's dr Abdugafour,

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<v Speaker 1>one of India's fiercest anti superbug crusaders. This season we

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<v Speaker 1>look at how researchers in the United States and elsewhere

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<v Speaker 1>looking for ways to fight back against superbugs, whether it's

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<v Speaker 1>by turning to unlikely sources or trying radical experiments. We

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<v Speaker 1>just hoped that nothing would happen because we were worried

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<v Speaker 1>that he could die of septic shark because essentially we

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<v Speaker 1>were injecting a billion viruses into his body. We investigate

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<v Speaker 1>of the unusual stabs hospitals are taking the safeguard against

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<v Speaker 1>hard to treat infections. Here's the rector swab. It's pretty straightforward.

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<v Speaker 1>You can either take it yourself or otherwise one of

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<v Speaker 1>the nursing staff can take it. And we look at

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<v Speaker 1>how scientists in Denmark attracting the global spread of superbugs

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<v Speaker 1>from waste collected from airplane bathrooms. Couldn't this be a

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<v Speaker 1>way of actually doing a global monitoring So you could

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<v Speaker 1>be sitting here in Copenhagen and then just let all

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<v Speaker 1>the samples come to you. Prognosis new season launch of

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<v Speaker 1>September five. Subscribe today on Apple podcasts, pocketcasts, or wherever

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