2015年6月27日 星期六

What do we do when antibiotics don't work anymore?

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June 27, 2015

Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?

16:59 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Jun 2015 · TED2015

Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly curable. But as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages of penicillin and the antibiotics that followed. New, drug-resistant bacteria mean we're entering a post-antibiotic world -- and it won't be pretty. There are, however, things we can do ... if we start right now.

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In the United States, 50 percent of the antibiotics given in hospitals are unnecessary. 45 percent of the prescriptions written in doctor's offices are for conditions that antibiotics cannot help. And that's just in healthcare. In the US, possibly 80 percent of the antibiotics sold every year go to farm animals, creating resistant bacteria that move off the farm in water, in dust, in the meat the animals become."

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