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6 minutes English.
From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Alice.
And I'm Neil.
What have you got there, Neil?
Antibiotics.
I had a blister on my big toe and it got infected.
My whole toe swelled up like a balloon.
The swelling's gone down now with these little wonder drugs.
Look, I'll show you.
No, Neil, please keep your socks on.
Thank you.
Now, the subject of today's show is penicillin,
which was one of the first antibiotics to be discovered.
So, Neil, can you tell me how many lives penicillin has saved since its first use as a medicine in 1942?
Is it A, 20 million, B, 200 million, or C, 2 billion?
Well, I'll say B, 200 million.
That sounds like a good number.