COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world for the past two years, but there’s a potentially deadlier threat creeping across the globe right now that hardly anyone is talking about. According to a recent report in the medical journal The Lancet, drug-resistant bacterial infections were linked to five million deaths worldwide in 2019. According to a UK government study, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could kill ten million people annually by the year 2050. Moreover, as with COVID-19, drug-resistant bacterial infections aren’t equitable, and poor and marginalized populations are the hardest hit, both in North America and around the globe. TRNN correspondent David Kattenburg speaks with Dr. Shira Doron and Dr. Tomislav Meštrović about the growing AMR crisis, why it has garnered so little public attention, and what can be done to address it.
Dr. Shira Doron is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University and the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Tufts Medical Center. In 2021, Dr. Doron co-authored a letter to the journal Nature Medicine entitled “Antibiotic Resistance: A Call to Action to Prevent the Next Epidemic of Inequality.†Dr. Tomislav Meštrović is a medical doctor and clinical microbiologist, and an associate professor at University North in Croatia. He’s also a scholar at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/like-covid-a-crisis-of-drug-resistant-bacterial-infections-is-hurting-the-poor-and-marginalized-most
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Primary care providers do not give functional medicine approach running tests finding out what mineral and vitamin deficiencies people have on top of diagnosing auto immune issues. Woman are not followed during and post change of life triggering auto immune issues and imbalances.
People are sent to specialists after the fact for surgeries, the rest is medication controlled.
At 18:45 dude's mic was muted
Too much use & other GMO?
The doctor should do a culture and sensitivity test on the swab to determine if bacteria are present,and if so, what antibiotic could be useful to treat.
We need phage therapy institutes around the world to cope with resistants..
The human condition is such: We don't take change seriously, in any aspect of our lives, whatever the situation, until it's too late, every single time, at our detriment. In relationships, we don't know what we have til it's gone, our environment, destroy until extinction, and health, until the damage is done. The interesting thing is that good law abiding citizens will change that life, damn near immediately to become a drug addict. Bottom line? We do what we want, consequences be damned.
Have any trials been done with silver. Have heard many people talk about using colloidal silver for conditions that antibiotics wouldn't work for. Perhaps we need to look back through history in order to go forward.?? I know Big Pharm, and the medical field don't like this idea but science is more open to go forward sometimes you have to look back in order to go forward. Over the last 100 yrs seems that money has been more important then the cure and has been a big component to many subjects.Economics of everything is the big picture like the 50 yrs ago a refrigerator or washing machine would last 30-50 yrs Now we are lucky to get 5-7 yrs.use before its not economical for the price to repair compared to the price of new. Also it's been harder to even get a RX for any antibiotics for the past 10 yrs. Also what about prebiotic and probiotics which has came really far with great incomes when antibiotics couldn't be used any longer and people have been told that the medical field had nothing else to offer.
Read "Primal panacea"
All the bacterial infections, irrespective of whether they are "antibiotic resistant" or not, can be treated and most of the times cured by the same homeopathic drugs that have been so successful in treating infections for the past 200 hundred years. Unfortunately, Americans (unlike Asians and Europeans) have no awareness of homeopathy and most of the MDs practicing it are being harassed and prosecuted. More unnecessary suffering to come curtesy of the Big Pharma power.
These drug resistant bacteria seem to be an externality not accounted for "just to be safe". We humans are very clever but not too smart. Is there any way to get ahead of product consequences, the externalities? Or is due diligence on a personal level necessary? The doctors presented so well, that I understood clearly. Thank you.
Poverty kills more people than covid and no one cares. Tuberculosis is the number one health threat, infecting billions and killing millions every year. The disease is becoming resistant to antibiotics. Drug companies do not invest in new antibiotics because there’s not much money in it. Drugs are about profits, not saving lives
These people don't seem to have a complete understanding of the problem. It is arguable that the main source of microbial resistance is from widespread, standard, sub-therapeutic antibiotics administration on factory farm animals. I am the majority of the way through the interview and neither of them has mentioned this whatsoever. Bye bye.
From or with Covid.
1 million deaths on the US but how many would have died anyway.
Your ignorance is staggering
My husband is almost 70 and walks 10 miles daily. He is very healthy, but contracted a form of strep that entered a wound on his toe. They tried two antibiotics that did not work. It went into the bone of his toe which required amputation.
I've known for years, but no one talks about it as if it shouldn't exist, but it does & with so much going wrong, it ""Proves Medical Care For Profit Is Making The World Sicker while their Pockets gets Fatter** When do we say ENOUGH & WHEN DO WE CREATE CHANGE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR ALL & NOT THE FEW OR WOULD U RATHER WATCH A VIDEO OR VIDEO GAME OR MOVIE AND INGORE YOUR WALLET NOT COVERING LIFE???? Nader Raiders have a Solution & so many more Radical Free Thinkers, But is anyone listening or planning, **NO & They Like that Way**
I worked in the MICU and we would swap every admission and around 30% were positive with MRSA, community spread. This was 4 years ago, probably more now. I was shocked at how many patients tested positive.
keep poking people continually with antibiotic including cattle and chickens and humans and the viruses and germs will become super bug resistant .
They will blame inequality on anything, won't they? Sad. 😢
You think it's bad now?!
Wait until we are eventually forced to deal with a super drug resistant strain of HIV/AIDS.
Long story short…
Thanks to the insane antics of "Bug-Chasers" who deliberately infect themselves and use their bodies to incubate stronger strains of the virus.
In addition to the fact a drug-resistant strain from The Philippines has most likely made it stateside thanks to the rise of sex tourism between Southeast Asia and the West Coast.
It's only a matter of time before that Philippine strain comes in contact with potent strains from "Bug-Chasers".
When it cross-mutates and thus, spawns the ultimate drug-resistant strain of HIV…ALL current treatments and drug cocktails will be rendered absolutely worthless.
There won't be viable treatments for years if not decades. God forbid nature throws a curveball and it further mutates to where it spreads via droplets or even casual contact.
It will become the death plague everyone back in the 1980s feared and dreaded.
https://youtu.be/1uhrkQscrR0
Incredibly disappointed to listen to the oversight. No one on the panel put the statistics in perspective. A full 80+% of antibiotics in production is used for animal agriculture. Let's stop equivocating about this. It's NOT all equal. It's NOT a behavioral science thing. It's not OUR fault as individuals.
1) Humans NEED the antibiotics
2) Humans do NOT need meat, dairy, eggs, or fish (look into salmon lice btw)
It's pretty clear what we need to do. If you can't raise farm animals without antibiotics, you simply can't raise that many of them. And yes, the market should price this in accordingly. And yes, we should probably remove all meat, dairy, egg, and fish subsidies and redirect to the production and equitable distribution to dietary staples, including fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
This problem was anticipated over half a century ago, and nothing was done to mitigate it.
Great talk. Thanks for posting.
terrain theory > germ theory
The number is lower..the government/the church lies
The world is in trouble from the governments and the zion banksters and rich millionaires. They orchestrate these events and plans for their own benefit while the public is put in jeopardy, made poorer, and devastated. All they care about is their money and power.
Remember if bacteria is harmful to you – you have never bothered to understand how to use PH to make you unfavorable to bacteria as a sub-environment. You eat like a dumbass and keep putting soap on your skin – no wonder you are susceptible to such things.