Antibiotics: A casualty of war?

抗生素:战争的牺牲品?

The Global Story

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2025-02-13

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Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics have saved countless lives and transformed the health of humanity. Before these drugs were discovered, even something as simple as a papercut could be life-threatening. Some of the greatest advances in the development of these drugs have been forged in wartime. But now those same wars threaten the progress that has been made. Host Jonny Dymond speaks with the BBC's Global Health correspondent Dominic Hughes about the hidden threat that wars around the world pose to modern medicine. And also the BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov who has been speaking to soldiers and hospital staff in Ukraine to see how antimicrobial resistance is affecting their ability to treat casualties. The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC journalists worldwide. We want your ideas, stories and experiences to help us understand and tell #TheGlobalStory. Email us at theglobalstory@bbc.com You can also message us or leave a voice note via WhatsApp on +44 330 123 9480. Producers: Peter Goffin and Mhairi MacKenzie Sound engineer: Mike Regaard Assistant editors: Alice Aylett Roberts and Sergi Forcada Freixas Senior news editor: China Collins
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  • They have saved countless lives and improved tens,

  • maybe hundreds of millions More antimicrobial drugs have transformed the health of humanity.

  • Some of the greatest advances in those drugs development have been forged in wartime.

  • But now those same wars threaten the progress that's been made.

  • The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led

  • to the emergence of bacteria that are severely resistant to multiple antibiotics.

  • A new dark age of drug resistance looms

  • as antimicrobial drugs are prescribed in massive quantities on the battlefield

  • and to civilian casualties.