Silent Pandemic
2022 · 89 min · Documentary
The Global Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
The world is on the cusp of an ominous development: Bacteria are building resistance to existing antibiotics faster than new antibiotics are entering the market. An ever-widening cavity is opening up. This "antibiotic gap", as experts call this development, marks the beginning of a new era in medicine. For the first time in recent history, we have to come to terms with the fact that not all bacterial infections are treatable anymore - with implications for all areas of medicine, from surgery to oncology. The WHO has been using the term "silent pandemic" since the fall of 2021 because, unlike Corona, antibiotic resistance is creeping into our society unnoticed - but it is shaking up our healthcare system just as overarchingly. The issue is currently so serious that it is being treated with the same degree of urgency on the international policy stage as climate change or migration.
- Director
- Michael Wech
- Released
- June 21, 2022
- Language
- English
Cast
Agnes Balasa
Self - Concerned Person
Ella Balasa
Self - Concerned Person
Ana Berceanu
Self - Oncologist CHRU Besançon
Sally Davies
Self - British Physician, UK Special Envoy on AMR
Alena Ehlers
Self - Concerned Person
Christina Fuhrman
Self - Concerned Person
Dane Fuhrman
Self - Concerned Person
Claire Gordon
Self - Microbiologist Fleming Fund
Rumina Hasan
Self - Microbiologist
Zahra Hasan
Self - Molecular Pathologist
Mba Isaac Stoner
Self - Managing Director and Co-Founder of Octagon Therapeutics
Moses Joloba
Self - HoD of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
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