2025-02-16
26 分钟Antimicrobial drugs like antibiotics have saved countless lives and transformed the health of humanity. 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.
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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.
Today, the story of humanity's triumph over disease and how that is threatened by the wars we fight.
With me today is Dominic Hughes, our global health correspondent.
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