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Antibiotics: A casualty of war?

How global conflicts are making medicine less effective.

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 大象传媒's Global Health correspondent Dominic Hughes about the hidden threat that wars around the world pose to modern medicine. And also the 大象传媒鈥檚 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.

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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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