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We had no fruit and hardly any meat to sell, as none that was sent to the lab passed our zero tolerance test towards pesticides, chemicals,
antibiotics
and hormones.
And when this happens, it's going to have a transformational effect that rivals the development of vaccinations and
antibiotics.
What if we could, I don't know, produce new
antibiotics
with those venoms?
Now, honestly, if I was living in your sewer pipe, I'd produce antibiotics, too.
Multiply that by 365, and you're reaching the staggering number of 700,000 people dead every single year because
antibiotics
that were efficient 30, 20 or 10 years ago are not capable of killing very common bugs.
The reality is that the world is running out of antibiotics, and the pharmaceutical industry does not have any answer, actually, any weapon to address that concern.
You see, 30 years ago, you could consider that 10 to 15 new kinds of
antibiotics
would hit the market every couple of years.
Just a half a millionth of a liter of a venom, diluted 10,000 times, is still capable of killing most bacteria that are resistant to any other kind of
antibiotics.
You'd think maybe
antibiotics
made more difference than clean water, but it's actually the opposite.
We are feeding massive doses of
antibiotics
to farm animals.
These
antibiotics
are then mutating into superbugs that threaten to render
antibiotics
obsolete within all of our lifetimes.
Google: "the end of working antibiotics."
Worse still, since the
antibiotics
employed to fight disease aren’t fully absorbed by the fish, they get excreted back into the environment.
One of the interesting things about these particular guys is that they're in the actinomycete and streptomycete groups of the bacteria, which is where we get most of our
antibiotics.
Ask them when your doctor wants to send you to an MRI, when he prescribes
antibiotics
or suggests an operation.
She went to the clinic, and they gave her
antibiotics
and then sent her home.
Switch antibiotics: so they switched to another antibiotic, Tamiflu.
These developments laid the groundwork for the modern field of antibiotics– currently home to our most effective TB treatments.
But,
antibiotics
fail to address a major diagnostic complication: about 90% of people infected with TB don’t show any symptoms.
Health experts agree we need to develop better diagnostics, faster acting antibiotics, and more effective vaccines.
You know, it used to be we just used
antibiotics
to treat these types of infections.
Antibiotics
were an amazing drug, for a while.
But eventually, bacteria were exposed to
antibiotics
so frequently they were forced to adapt.
The story actually starts in the 1940s with the widespread introduction of
antibiotics.
Doctors use
antibiotics
more appropriately when they see how other doctors use them.
Couldn't these be new kinds of
antibiotics?
And of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of
antibiotics.
Bacteria are incredibly multi-drug-resistant right now, and that's because all of the
antibiotics
that we use kill bacteria.
We kill bacteria with traditional antibiotics, and that selects for resistant mutants.
The hope is that these will be used as broad-spectrum
antibiotics
that work against all bacteria.
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