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Antimicrobial resistance is the most complex and pressing challenge since climate change. Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies discusses the problem. Apologies for the audio issues with this talk – we had a few technical difficulties while filming.
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Having secured support nationally from the Prime Minister and UK Government for the need to action, Dame Sally Davies is working tirelessly internationally to increase global awareness and secure commitments to action on antibiotic resistance.
In this Discourse, Dame Sally explores why antimicrobial resistance has developed to such an extent that it is now a threat to modern medicine. She looks at how it is spreading across the globe, why we need to urgently change our attitude towards antimicrobials, in particular antibiotics, so that we treat them as a common good – not only in health but also in agriculture, farming, aquaculture and the environment.
Antimicrobials are a wonder drug, but only when used effectively. If we do not learn how to look after them, we could see a return to ‘pre-antibiotic era’ where 40% mortality is due to infections – something that is difficult to believe now.
Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer of the UK, acting as the UK government’s principal medical adviser and the professional head of all directors of public health in local government.
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Go Vegan. Antimicrobial Resistance Thrives In The Animal Product Industry
welp phage therapy ftw
Thank you for posting these talks 🙂
The US government is busy deregulating sanitation and removing practical medical access for many. Science-based studies are now suspect and ignored. This does not bode well.
"Antimicrobial resistance is the most complex and pressing challenge since climate change."
So, climate change is over now? Phew! Sixth Mass Extinction averted!
PS.
I'm Swedish and a bit stupid, but how about changing the word "since" out with the word "after", "behind" or similar, which might indicate they are simultaneous, but one somewhat more Terminal than the other?
I thought I was being good as I have never taken anti biotics.
Thank you for thess owsome talks!!
can you please add the automatique anglais for traduction?
It's not OUR fault, it's the animal husbandry industry which feeds them a cocktail of antibiotics because they've bred the animals to have virtually no natural immunity. It's not a coincidence that the newest resistances developed in pigs. This is like blaming global warming on the family car and not coal power.
what about using synthetic virology
"Nasties developing resistance to antibiotics is a Seriously Bad Thing and we intend to fight it pretty much exclusively by asking you the take less antibiotics pretty please (with a cherry on top). Oh, and you might wanna bleach your hands regularly because washing them the way you do apparently does nothing much at all." There, I saved you an hour of your life, you can thank me later.
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Excellent talk.
Having being born in the early '60s, there was no public knowledge of these problems. As a child, if my nose was running I had it wiped with the same cloth that had wiped the kitchen table. The kitchen table was then wiped a few hours later with the same (unwashed) cloth before we sat down to eat.We ate mud pies, shared bottles of drink without wiping our mouths etc. We developed a resistance to bugs/viruses etc. Just stop prescribing antibiotics unless the problem is life threatening
So our grandkids will live forever, with gonorrhea, in a desert, until there's nothing but black holes. Somewhat a bleak prognosis for immortality.
50% mortality in those school kids. What she leaves out when saying she fears going back to sunshine and fresh air as treatment is the natural immunity gained in the next generation. We're so busy artificially selecting humans for survival that we've forgotten about natural selection. It's the mechanism responsible for our immune system and we're ignoring it.
What I'm even more worried about is the possibility of developing Viral Resistance in AIDS patients that are being given anti-virals for their whole life.Imagine anti-viral-resistant HIV!!!
And it still doesn't have subtitles…
The first RI lecture I went to, it was so inspirational and I loved every second of it <3
As a nurse working in an acute surgical ward….we give out I.v antibiotics like smarties. Multiple antibiotics for simple infections. Even when there is no indication of infection they patients are still prescribed a huge amount of them for very long periods of time.
Colloidal silver perhaps?
The true tragedy of the advent of antibiotic resistant bacteria is that the poor fungi that produce these antibiotics are no longer protected.
Mushrooms can come up with a resistance to almost any bacteria. All you have to do is feed the bacteria or virus to them and they will figure out how to defeat it. You should look for medicinal mushrooms on YouTube some of them can even cure cancer.
should´ve called the talk resistance is futile otherwise great stuff
This woman thinks herself a hindu, because not "we humans" misuse antibiotica. It happened in the 3rd world, it was the third world humans! Not us in Europe.
lip smacking was pretty annoying; otherwise good, interesting stuff
As a Kenyan I'm embarrassed!!!