Rise of the Superbugs
We are headed towards a post-antibiotic era, a world where common infections could become life-threatening. That's the message from The World Health Organisation, but are we listening?Rise of the Superbugs is a six-part series about antimicrobial resistance or "superbugs, telling the scary (but solvable) story of superbugs.The series explores our medical systems, through personal stories, waterways and acts of (human) resistance. We’ll talk to experts as we dig into our medicine cabinets, hospitals and backyards, the known past and predicted futures.Rise of the Superbugs reveals where the media has gone wrong in telling the superbug story and why we need to retell it.Host: Dr Britta Jorgensen. Producers: Sarah Mashman and Silvi Vann-Wall. Executive Producer: Professor Mia Lindgren.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
How can we retell the superbug story?
There are so many different terms used to talk about antimicrobial resistance - AMR, multidrug resistance, One Health, antibiotic resistance, superbugs. It can be really confusing. In this episode we…
Imagined futures: Antimicrobial Resistance
Imagine a future where your access to antibiotics is determined by a court. Or where your antibiotic resistant infection is treated by a bacteria-eating virus. In this episode, we're looking back at …
The backyard: at home with resistant bacteria
Our backyards are full of resistant microbes. In this episode, we find out how they spread through all living organisms - including our pets, our farm animals and our wildlife. We head to the south c…
Waiting Room: AMR and the health system
Do you trust your doctors and pharmacists to give you the right advice about antibiotics? Episode 3 takes us inside the healthcare system to tackle the problem of overprescription. We investigate tru…
Across the water: The spread of antimicrobial resistance
Superbugs develop their resistance to antibiotics by mixing and mingling with each other. Many superbugs travel on and in our bodies as we go back and forth overseas. But that isn’t the only way they…
The medicine cupboard: Antibiotics in Australia
Most Australians will use antibiotics in our lifetimes but there is a lot we don’t understand about how they work. In Episode 1 of our series we find out how most of us use antibiotics, what we know …
Rise of the Superbugs: Trailer
The world is now facing another looming health crisis - antimicrobial resistance (AMR) or "superbugs". The World Health Organisation has warned that we are headed towards a post-antibiotic era, in wh…