sally t_v_ zack is the chief medical officer for inland and one thing that
she's really trying to warn people about is antibiotic resistance is something
that we have discussed on the show before because all the senate we receive
your merchants of super bugs
basically uh... you know i uh... bacteria
that has evolved to be completely resistant
to antibiotics
now their cases of gonorrhea
they're completely resistant to antibiotics and also some cases of
tuberculosis
so force doctors and health care professionals are really worried about
this because they feel like there hasn't been enough paper says
are developing new antibiotics that are strong enough
to kill these super bugs now i want to read you loud the statement from sally
davies she says quote
and semi-public resistance poses a catastrophic threat if we don't act now
anyone of us could go into at the hospital in twenty years for minor
surgery
and died because of an ordinary infection that can't be treated by
antibiotics
and routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could
be deadly because
of the risk of infection
now that does sound a little apocalyptic like you know we were in four
a lot of trouble
but i think that she makes a fair point because right now i feel like doctors
are really over prescribing antibiotics and also
the electronics to they kill bacteria
and then that's super bugs
but it may have remained him and his resistance and then they continue to
bring in a name that's how we
involved
bbm involved is to provide center antibiotic resisting absolutely right
there is definitely
over park over prescribing antibiotics in the united states and uh... in europe
as well
uh... you know one i think that most people don't seem dot really now is that
eighty percent of antibiotics in the united states
do not go to humans they go to farm animals and helps the farm animals grow
faster as they grow in these crowded unsanitary factory farm conditions so
they get what they call sub their cubic use of antibiotics to help the animals
and that has been linked directly in studies over the last two years that's
been linked directly to the rise of and banks it provides so okay that's really
interesting because you know uh... there's that lake but can you explain
that lately that they were they basically were able to trace
the specific clients in a specific uh... and sells like gas of the strain of e_
coli in front of me that that actually was man
and an antibiotic resistant strain is that uh... we can point this directly to
these farm applications that are being uh... so on site and have more
specifically i think i could find an incentive okay but yet there has been
something that has been established
uh... fairly strong in a link it you know and there've been a lot of uh...
these environmental groups and uh... farm groups that have been saying that
we've really needs to bring the f_d_a_ end to restrict the use of antibiotics
in farming only two animals that are actually say nods to the healthy animals
to stayed the sake i see that that that chief of the at the british medical
service she says that we have to severely restrict globally severely
restrict the use of antibiotics worldwide if we're going to stop this
because there are no bacteria other nalla aerobatics in the pipeline right
now in the research pipeline
to replace
all of the current class and banks that we have
so
actually concerned about that as well because if you develop more powerful
antibiotics what are the implications of what will it do to our bodies straight
which if they have some really dangerous side effects and some of these newer
antibiotics were put in because they were more gentle on the human system and
now we're having to go back to the really really scary nasty you know
nuclear warfare level
of antibiotics which are really harsh on the system
and also i don't think that people understand how
it you know
i don't know dangerous is a strong word but ever having to do harm to your body
is as well as kill the bacteria that you're trying to get rid of
it kills the good bacteria in your body so it kinda destroys their digestive
system for sears certain period of time on you know women have good bacteria you
know down there you know cleans out your system
and if you get rid of that you can can in fact also candidates here intestinal
bacteria and have people that mad at you can actually get at candida which is a
sort of uh... uh... a yeast infection throughout your to your bloodstream
redneck and kelly a
uh... then that's also something that isn't it
in implicated in the senate attic resistance to provide
issue that's going on there was another one that was announced just last week in
britain as well it's called c heartbeat to kind of bacteria that's on the rise
in hospitals and there is no known antibiotics that work against this
particular one that's been spreading in hospitals and britain and it has a fifty
percent talent rate
well that's great yes just to keep u happy there you know but it's it's one
of those things where
we need to actually continued to put the pressure on our federal agencies to do
something about these this this overuse of antibiotics because this has serious
implications for all of us