00:00My life has depended on the use of antibiotics.
00:04I wouldn't be alive today without antibiotics, and now they're not working to save my life
00:10any longer.
00:12The latest data shows the deaths are going up.
00:15We have a silent pandemic, so we really need to move now.
00:21It's definitely a pandemic, there's no question about it.
00:23One of the things that we struggle with is that it's a pandemic not of a single disease.
00:31How do you find the smoking gun?
00:34So how do you know what's emerged from the environment is ultimately causing the disease
00:40in humans?
00:44We're seeing very clear evidence that there are these new genes that are evolving in animals
00:48because of all this pressure of antibiotic use, and those are moving into pathogens that
00:53are infecting people too.
00:56These fungi, they make spores all the time, they spread.
01:00And this is happening and nobody has an idea what is happening.
01:05Extensive drug resistance can happen immediately.
01:09If you look at the number of cases worldwide, if you look at surveillance, if you look at
01:13the outbreaks, all of that is demonstrating that you have a very serious problem that in
01:19many parts of the world is accelerating.
01:23But then there's the places you've been able to institute proper mechanisms, you can also
01:28control things.
01:30Today we culture almost all known pathogens to man, so that's an incredible improvement
01:36in case of diagnostic.
01:38But can we find those patients who have the resistance?
01:41I want the general public to be aware that they need to use antibiotics appropriately.
01:47All of us have a responsibility here.
01:51I think we all have a capability of making change.
01:54And I predict that we will wake up too late unless we really up our game.
02:02We're choosing not to pay attention to it, we have made it silent.
02:06It's actually not that silent, it is actually not that hidden.
02:09We're sort of hiding from it rather than it hiding from us.
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