The Rise of Antibiotic Resistant SuperBugs

The Rise of SuperBugs:
In 2017, drug-resistant "superbugs" in the US infected 2.8 million people and caused more than 35,000 deaths, up more than 50% from just 4 years prior. And competing reports from the Washington University School of Medicine estimate that drug-resistant bacteria kill nearly five times more than that a year. The SuperBug problem has gotten so bad that Robert Redfield, the director of the CODC, now cautions it is one of the greatest threats to the world today.

The origin of superbugs dates back to the beginning of the antibiotics we use to fight them. In March 1942, Anne Miller, a 33-year-old woman was near death at New Haven Medical Center in Michigan, suffering from a strep infection, a common cause of death 70 years ago. The infection had made it into her bloodstream and her condition seemed bleak. She had been hospitalized for a month, often delirious, with her temperature spiking to nearly 107 degrees. Her doctors had tried everything to save her including drugs, blood transfusions, and surgery. All had failed.

On March 14th, she was very near to death and doctors, desperate to save her, administered an experimental drug; penicillin. Discovered 14 years earlier, the drug had been shown effective at killing bacteria in petri dishes, but had never been administered to a human.

Miraculously, in just hours, she recovered, becoming the first person in the world to be saved by an antibiotic. Rather than dying in her thirties, Anne Miller would live another 57 years to reach the ripe old age of 90.

But today, more than half a century later, germs like the one that infected Anne Miller, which once killed millions, are making a resurgence as they’re becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.

Watch the whole video to find out more!

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2:40 bacteriophages - would really like to know more about them

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[michaelsilva]

That’s scary stuff. It’s surprising that we haven’t had a superbug pandemic yet. Great vid as always. Thanks

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[mickmamahawkmickmamahawk]

5 years ago I stepped on a thorn. Within 3 days I was septic. I was admitted into the hospital but in quarantine for 3 days. I had developed staph and strep in and on my foot. They were making concoctions of antibiodies to try and stop it from spreading up my leg. It took 6 antibiotics at one time to stop it. Thankfully because it was MM away from the cutoff point. I had to have surgery to remove the infected part of my foot. It took 17 days, surgery and 6 antibiotics to save my life and my leg.
I asked the Docs why the antibiotics wouldn't work on me beings I almost never took any. He said it was because of superbugs that had mutated to resist our antibiotics.
They always warned us growing up about antibiotics and the overuse of them. We didn't listen.

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