Rise of the Superbug - Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria – Video 1
Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against infection diseases
Bacteria are coming resistant to the antibiotics we currently use
Bacteria are everywhere
Human body – 10 thousand different microbes in the human body
Bacteria have genes that make them resistant to antibiotics
Bacteria can share genes with each other
Picking genes up from their surroundings
Share genes through viruses viral pass
Bacteria can share genes through sex
Bacteria share their antibiotic genes with each other
Antibiotics work like:
Can kill a bacterium without harming a human by recognizing the bacterium
Work like a key in a lock – leads to activation of the bacterium
3 ways bacteria can become resistant
Up chucks - Antibiotic targets something specific inside the bacterial cell – the bacterium barfs it back out prevents it from finding its target
Stealth mode – antibiotic recognizes something specific but the bacteria changes it just enough so the antibiotic no longer recognizes it. The target is in stealth mode, bacterium is resistant
Ballistic missile defense – bacteria makes a type of weapon that goes out and finds the antibiotic, before the antibiotic can find its target. The bacterium sends out waves of these missiles that breakdown the antibiotic and allow the bacterium to survive
Bacteria are small, multiply fast, share genes
Antibiotics kill bad and good bugs
Bacteria will eventually become resistant to all antibiotics
Unstoppable Superbugs: Closer Than We Think? – Video 2
Bacteria are evolving faster than we can keep up with them
Bugs are getting stronger and antibiotics are getting weaker
People are dying from simple diseases
2 million people are effected by super bugs in health care facilities and contribute over 99,000 deaths each year in the US alone everytime we are exposed to
