Speaker 1: It can be one of the worst days of someone's
Speaker 1: life to get a cancer diagnosis. For a long time,
Speaker 1: patients at least new chemotherapy was one path to being treated.
Speaker 1: In some countries, that path has become a lot riskier.
Speaker 1: That's because of the emergence of bacteria with the most
Speaker 1: extreme form of antibodic resistance. We are facing a difficult scenario.
Speaker 1: Do give chemotherapy and cure the cancer and get ad
Speaker 1: regorously infection and the patient dying of infections. You don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. The world doesn't know what to
Speaker 1: do in the scenario. But that's the if you're talking
Speaker 1: about the past antibiotic Europe. You first see that in
Speaker 1: cancer Patients. On Jason Gale, a senior editor with Bloomberg News,
Speaker 1: on this new season of Prognosis, we look at the
Speaker 1: spread of infections around the world that even our most
Speaker 1: potent anti microbial medicines can't stop. It's being described as
Speaker 1: a silent tsunami of catastrophic proportions, and it's happening faster
Speaker 1: than scientists previously thought. The situation is getting worse, definitely
Speaker 1: getting worse, because the drug or systems read the superbug
Speaker 1: grade is increasing. One a daily basis. It's increasing, so
Speaker 1: the number of measures dying are really high. That's dr Abdugafour,
Speaker 1: one of India's fiercest anti superbug crusaders. This season we
Speaker 1: look at how researchers in the United States and elsewhere
Speaker 1: looking for ways to fight back against superbugs, whether it's
Speaker 1: by turning to unlikely sources or trying radical experiments. We
Speaker 1: just hoped that nothing would happen because we were worried
Speaker 1: that he could die of septic shark because essentially we
Speaker 1: were injecting a billion viruses into his body. We investigate
Speaker 1: of the unusual stabs hospitals are taking the safeguard against
Speaker 1: hard to treat infections. Here's the rector swab. It's pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: You can either take it yourself or otherwise one of
Speaker 1: the nursing staff can take it. And we look at
Speaker 1: how scientists in Denmark attracting the global spread of superbugs
Speaker 1: from waste collected from airplane bathrooms. Couldn't this be a
Speaker 1: way of actually doing a global monitoring So you could
Speaker 1: be sitting here in Copenhagen and then just let all
Speaker 1: the samples come to you. Prognosis new season launch of
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