What would the world be like without antibiotics? | BBC Ideas

Our entire medical system relies on antibiotics. They've added, on average, about 20 years of life to everybody. But we are facing what's sometimes called "the silent pandemic". We explore the growing problem of antibiotic resistance - and what can be done about it.

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[simone]

Thank you for this edifying feature. It reminded me of my mother's health travails last April. She had an extended stay at the hospital after the results of the pneumococcal culture came out five days from admission. She was on intravenous piperacillin tazobactom previously. But according to her pulmonologist, there was no oral cefepime which worked well on Klebsiella, so her stay was extended for the intravenous administration of cefepime.

[mlbhos]

We need to seriously investigate bacteriophages, they may be our only hope.

[robertskolimowski]

Too bad they failed to mention the huge role the agriculture industry plays in increasing the antibiotic resistance, e.g. meat from mass production farms is ridden with antibiotics, by consuming it we become (somewhat inadvertently) part of the problem.

[winstonoboogie]

Bacteriophage technology arrived in 1917. The only reason we use antibiotics is because it hit the market first. Bacteriophages can be designed to go after something specific without destroying other important organisms.

[vineshkum]

Beyond life without antibiotics impossible

[BlackJacketJones]

My spider bite wont go away completely and I’m almost done with my antibiotics. I’m nervous

[c-aadityaahlawat]

BBC can you please tell me the names of doctors in the video

[lisab]

The amount of antibiotics I got as a child has definitely damaged my health now I’m older but at the same time I would have died a few years ago if I hadn’t of had antibiotics when I got an infection during an operation

[naza]

Doctors usually do not prescribe antibiotics for colds and sore throats but it is so painful when you have a sore throat so I take antibiotics by myself.

[MariaMartinez-researcher]

Life without antibiotics is what history and literature is full of. Kings, presidents, great artists and scientists, dying from things nowadays nobody cares about.
Ask Jean Baptiste Lully if you don't believe it.

[cwwmlxw]

1. planrs cannot be infected by human viruses, theh might be able to transmit though.
2. antibiotics aren’t very profitable.

[horrormysterieswithmr.s]

I'm a Corpse, can i take Antibiotics?

[imwithstupid]

Wellcomevfoundation and imperial college?? Seriously... farrer and ferguson??? You seriously screwed the uk over! Where are you now?

[danbee]

Good day if youre reading this!🫶🌤😺❕
Loved this video as it pertained to my interests, on a unprecedented level. May youre day be filled with joy and safety, i beseech you🤘. One last thing….
I would venture to say, if you were to discover additional sources and they were found near the icky stuff, then is that not a ideal place to build? Likely already been done, but is it some chemical polarization in the dish?