Uncover the alarming reality of antibiotic resistance and its historical context, from deadly pandemics to the groundbreaking discovery of penicillin. Explore potential solutions, including cutting-edge machine learning, offering hope for a resilient future.
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Just fail entirely to mention the 2 people who actually developed Penicillin into a proper antibiotic: pathologist Howard Florey and the German-born biochemist Ernst Chain.
Fleming originally discounted it as being viable to use as an antibiotic. Florey was the first person to actually cure someone using penicillin.
And it will kill us all because people won’t stop eating animals. In the US, livestock animals are given 80% of all antibiotics processed here. Globally it’s 65%.
Thing is, I feel a large part of this problem comes from America. It's the only country I know of where antibiotics are prescribed so frequently for anything and everything. Stuff like that should only be prescribed for problems that don't go away on their own within a few weeks, and don't have other medication available for them.
Someone, please stop this bot from making new channels. I'm so tired of the crappy clickbait titles.
Today I learned that he has yet another channel
Once again we hear form the "mask, hand sanitizer and vaxnazis".
Bacteriophages "behave like an army of tiny SAS operators"?
I didn't realize that SAS operators can multiply after they are deployed. How cool is that?
Damn, if it's worse than I think then it is really bad.
If we lose antibiotics, we will need a new weapon against bacteria, viruses that have been genetically engineered to fight bacteria? (bacteriophage)
Nanobots. We need to pour our research resources into medical nanobots.
Nanobots are to antibiotic resistance what spears and nowadays rifles are to thick skulls and sharp claws. If you can't out-evolve it, bash it or poke it with something hard or sharp. Technology trumps everything.
50bn animals killed each year.
I'm glad my parents raised me to only take medicine if I really need it.
Sadly that won't help when society as a whole overuses antibiotica,
should've relied more on your natural immune system instead of breeding super bugs.
We had the warnings early enough to do something about it, as so often we didnt…
I don't know how many ways I can say it,
Factory farming is going to kill us
Stop eating meat!!!
More than 90% of antibiotics used in the USA are used in growing animals for meat.
It's used at a constant low rate so they can treat them rather than treat them better
Seriously stop eating meat, it's poisons the water supply, causes climate change & killing people with cancer, heart disease, stroke & diabetes
It's also inefficient. It takes 25kgs of cow food to create 1kg of beef
I won't be getting into a debate. I'm over arguing with people over stuff I know to be true. Its pointless anyway. Most people do the knee-jerk "Don't take my meat" without hearing a thing.
There are a million of ways to check my facts.
I'm not doing your homework for you
Thank you for making this video! As a Medical Laboratory Scientist, vancomycin resistant enterococcus is one of many antibiotic resistant organisms, and its terrifying. When the carpet bomb of antibiotics doesn't kill the bacteria responsible for your illness its pretty bad.
1: We over prescribe antibiotics without sensitivity testing of the pathogen responsible for the illness to determine the BEST antibiotic to be used. Blindly tossing broad spectrum antibiotics at every infection has brought us here.
2: Patient compliance in taking the entire dose thus allowing the pathogen (The more resistant surviving bacteria) to continue to infect the patient.
Be better physicians! Be better scientist! and be better patients!
Cool that I found this and glad to see this out here. I'm currently completing my PhD which is working on developing a possible new antibiotic.
Fact you probably picked up during your research: Current estimates suggest that we could see nearly 10 million deaths globally per year caused directly by antibiotic resistance by the year 2050. For many people watching this video, this is within our lifetimes.
Opinion: All our current antibiotics are based on something that was found in nature which means primary resistance and gene transfer will always be an issue. We need to investigate compounds that are completely synthetic and kill bacteria by mechanisms that either don't yet exist or bacteria can't possibly develop resistance against.
2 problems. 1 is expecting people to be a little sick when they can also go to a doctor and get antibiotics that make them healthy faster. and 2 trusting people to take every single pill even when they "feel" better. we should force anyone to be in a hospital and make 100% sure they take every single dose. because dumb people are accelerating the resistance.
Worth noting it wasn't just Sir Alexander Fleming that won the Nobel peace prize it was awarded jointly with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
Also neat fact Sir Howard Florey was voted as the best Australian by the public in the early 2000s for an Australian tv show.
So governments could pool resources under the WHO to make more antibiotics.
Is that 1.2 billion figure only what the pharmaceutical companies spend per molecule, or are you lumping a huge amount of public funding in to help spread propaganda for the CEO's? If that isn't included, tell us how much public funding goes into each molecule. Pharmaceutical companies spend far more on stock buybacks and advertising than they do on R&D, so spare me the sob story about how much these drugs cost.
Bacteriophages should be researched more
As a scientist who studies antinicrobial reistance. Im glad the public is starting to realize how bad things are. Also many pharma companies have shut down their antimicrobial sections. Spoke to one researcher who went through 3 major companies and each shit down their bacterial sectors. He switched to HR. I dont blame them though. Its difficult expensive and a money pit as resistance will take hold quickly.
dont forget something important
the "country" could investigate whatever new medicine/tratments, then a "private" company would come, swop the patents and copyrights and whatever… and swiggity swooty, all those new stuff are out of reach for the poor people…
"Humanity could discover the cure for cancer today and it will still be out of reach for most people"
-Someone, i forgot
Microphages are the future of medicine
Imagine being a non vegan and fretting about antibiotic resistance 🤡🤡. Your lifestyle is the root cause of antibiotic resistance.
I am going to die
So the hundred billion dollars the west has wasted on Ukraine would have developed dozens of new antibiotics..,,.,…. Hmmmmm
Yeah, if the problem is so bad you total soy, like covid was, then pharmaceutical companies could release an untested drug under the emergency use authorization.
If you live in a country with "FREE" healthcare, have a real good look at the faces populating the waiting rooms… "New Arrivals" are the reaason this has become a problem so quickly! When you give "FREE" anyhing to people with 3rd world intelligence it WILL get abused.
I did a portfolio on these last year for school work
I’m highly skeptical of this storyline. If health authorities actually believed drug resistant pathogens were a major threat, we’d put the breaks on factory farming, which is by far the largest consumer of antibiotics. As with climate change, our actions speak much louder than our fear-mongering words.
There is a new technology called Artilysin made by Lysando. It kills resistant bacteria while keeping the „good“ bacteria intact!!!!
In the US we tend to get thrown antibiotics anytime you’re in arms distance to a medical office. The biggest culprit is Urgent Cares
Seems like vaccines suffer from similar problems as antibiotics, but he seems to ignore that. Also, why wouldn't the phages be able to change overtime just like other viruses and then possibly become deadly?
Is this guy in like half the youtube videos on the platform?
K so like usual all our problems are from capitalism
I remember when I worked at an urgent care where it was never more clear to me why this will always be a problem with our current system.
"Everyone who walks through that door gets a script."
These are the exact words I heard the department supervisor say, and the medical director agreed with her because he was part owner of the company. It's not healthcare, it's a business. They really don't care about correct use. They care about making customers happy, and no ones happy spending money for a visit only to be told, "Just go home and get some rest. You'll feel better in a few days." They want a drug they can take that will make them think they'll feel better because they're taking a pill. It's a mess.
Well if the Chinese use antibiotics for prevention and for every easy cough and pinky finger pain as i know they do, then its all a dead cause, we are all doomed…
I like you Simon but did you do like a bump of coke B4 this? Your first Six minutes are pretty speedy. I never noticed your "huff" type breathing between sentences B4. Otherwise I still enjoyed the material.
My opinion is not a popular one. We think we're so smart – smart enough to outsmart nature and that simply isn't so. Nature is infinity smarter than we will ever be and as long as we keep trying to live forever; mother nature will keep finding a way to balance the scales (population).
The quote "Life will find a way" is the most important thing here. Pathogens will find a way to overcome the challenges we give them but as long as we rely on drugs to fight our battles for us, we are weakening ourselves. We need to stop using antibiotics and rely on strengthening our bloodlines. People will die but it's the only way to ensure survival of our species.
Ah, nothing like a good old youtube video to make me panic about the future.
Simon, it is bothering me so much right now that you have your back to the open door….😂
Realized this when TB (circa 1981) had a resistant antibiotic strain. BTW, why don't physicians do TB testing inoculations anymore? Lastly, the comparisons you made with the rats, and squirrels is accurate. My late husband often referred to that type of conversation when feeding the squirrels. Great analysis.
It will work itself out… When the population density drops low enough.
So why isn’t there someone cookinging up new antibiotics???
Oregano P73 is all I am going to say 👍🙏😉