Antibiotic Resistance - The Virus that Cures - BBC Horizon
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- Still relevant today, the programme tracks the critical rise of antibiotic resistance and the remarkable use in the Soviet Union of viruses known as bacteriophage to combat resistant infections.
Little has chanced since 1997, when we filmed this programme in the Republic of Georgia.
Many thanks to all the scientists in UK, US and Tblisi who gave their time.
Director - Judith Bunting
DoP - John Howarth
Translator - Sarah Fergusson
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I campaigned for the acceptance of phage therapy in Wales and got my MP (Huw Irranca Davies) to write to the Ministry of Health but the reply I got was desultory. And I visited a couple of research labs in England but to no avail. Then I met Grace Philby and she agreed to take on the campaign. She got a grant and went to Tbilisi and Poland and the US but also to no avail. The drug companies have a big stake in antibiotics that they produce by the truckload. If phage therapy was to become the norm, antibiotics wouldn't be required in such quantities. They would lose billions in sales. That is the top and bottom of it. Money money money. Life is cheap in the world of money.
Then to think gain of function research isn't only a norm. I'm guessing the eugenics pole.
Absolutely right Life is cheap in this world of money.
Yep and on the other side antibiotics is used in food especially meat which continues to lay the ground for further antibiotic resistance
BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT US.
JUST LIKE IN COVID CRISIS....
It's too bad nobody can figure out a way to sell phage therapy.
Bacteriophage, ultraviolet light, ozone, silver and copper could be used to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria.
BigPharma is the biggest threat to our health
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember watching this horizon episode when it was originally aired on BBC. The fact that we are still wrestling with bacterial resistance now speaks so much about the corruption of the medical industry and the monumental power of profit before science. This is so relevent to what we are going through now. Sadly, the BBC don't produce this quality of programming anymore.
Hi, Glad to enjoyed the programme. Bacteriophage's day will come. Sadly no use against Covid and that's another virus, but hugely useful for MRSA, VRE etc when they raise their heads again.
@@judithbunting781 : The answer to all infections are the parenteral pancreatic enzymes. The failure of Western medicine, in fact world wide failure, to see the pancreas as the primary organ of immunity is catastrophic, though it's been known since the early 1900s. Not only for immunity but regeneration and protection from cancers. The hardiness of the pancreatic hydrolases depends on the Co-enzymes, especially Hydrocyanic Acid. The vilification of this core of all B vitamins has debilitated all understanding of true immunity as based on digestion. Enterally and parenterally.
My father when he was executive at Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical in Indianapolis from 1953-59 told his daughter myself too much use of antibiotics in factory farms in feed as that pharmaceutical bought Elanco for more profit with new bacterial resistance would occur and I should not use antibodies unless absolutely necessary because resistance can occur. The lies and profit motive by FDA in America. Thank you for giving info to the people.
Twenty some years back, New Scientist, published research which showed an extract from an Australian bush, Malaluca, which when evaporated into the air in a ward and also an operating theatre, destroyed golden Staph on surfaces. I expected developments but each treatment cost twenty cents and a cup of hot water.
Covid-19
If any treatment gets approved, produced and is marketed...I'm sure big pharma finds a way to over charge us😏
I am Georgian and I have been using bacteriophages when I was a kid. And until this days we use it if necessary. Everyone can purchase it in regular pharmacy without prescription in Georgia.
Thank you for letting us know. I was hugely impressed by the way bacteriophages were used in hospitals and clinics. Such enormous potential. Glad to hear they are still easily available in Georgia.
I look forward to visiting your fascinating country one day.
You are the person I want to ship me these phages by the big box load. add box with english translation and resell nonprofit. (help)
@@BobJoy_my_collection_of_stuff Unfortunately phages are not allowed for sale in North America. In addition it requires special temperature regime. I would suggest travel to Georgia for treatment. Though I believe something can be done
@@johndock9164 phages that don't require special handling are in the corner drug store, no scrip needed. unapproved drugs are easier to get than script drugs in USA. You might not be aware that prozac, Zoloft, and narcan are big street drugs.
If ultraviolet disinfection were to be introduced into high level hospital air-conditioned supply systems with low level extract, then cross infection would be seriously reduced.
I read that using copper for door knobs etc. also kills bacteria.
Yes love these comments...
Copper does kill bacteria and Stainless Steel will breed it.
Mother Nature knows. Mother Nature has always known and always will know. Why do we fight against Mother Nature. Mother Nature looks after us all. This is an example of working with Mother Nature.
All good things in moderation.
Even that supreme thought or theory.
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If I had a resistant bacterial infection I would get my ass on a plane and go to Georgia!
Thank you judith for this editorial. Please keep releasing this!!!
One of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read on this topic is Viruses vs superbugs
I almost lost the end of my foot from staph. It hurt so bad I told them to cut it off. They successfully treated it and it was treated similarly to a burn.
I am glad you had a decent medical team who cared about your recovery.
So glad to know that there is an answer to the superbugs. Thank you to all that worked on this solution. It will be a long time before it is used in the USA because corporations control here.
Bet they can do wonders for cancers as well! Would love to see it!
I would wish but unfortunately it's a virus. It kills bacteria that are susceptible to them. If it were effective against cancer it would be effective against other cells in your body and would have a deleterious effect similar to chemo. Even if it were somehow engineered to only be effective against the specific type of cancer(say leukemia) it would likely attack your bones, bone marrow and blood cells. although perhaps you could have its genes edited so it doesn't kill the cells it infects but instead it uses CRISPR and could edit out the maladapted mutation from cancer cells although that would mean a change in CRISPR itself.
These are real heroes! Proud of them. Wish you total success! *Save humanity.
Why isn't this be on youtube recommendation :<
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am very curious of phage because of what we are going through currently.
Thanks for the great response. I would love for this to be on youtube recommendations. Please tell your friends to watch and share!
Came across this interesting n educating documentary n cure. Will share with as many.
I have Phages in my fridge. Great therapy. Lot thanks for your video.
Yea, ha, trying bleach, for couple days. Still working on 🧐:-)
@@a.racetiffany2966 i have byed them for my ear infection. After 2 antibiocas treatments - not sucssesfull, the doctor say'd, that I must take OP. He didn't make a bactery culture. It's a norm, to not make a bacterial culture and give some antibiotics!!!!
So, I've byed Phages - working for 5 most common bacs - and my ear is healed now. I've got this infection after my MRNA jab. 1,5 years fight followed withaut healing. Cortison + antibiotics - so it's work!!!
Best regards
It's still therapy not only in Georgia, but Russia and Poland.
I am one of the very few that survived Merseybeat with @ 10 day course of Vancomycin. I had had kidney stones and had a tube inserted to drain my left kidney that’s when I contracted the killer bug. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) The only side effect was the skin on the palms of my hands began to slough off. My infectious disease doctor told me it was a result of toxins escaping my body ????
Other non staphylococcal viruses may not be treatable and spread so quickly infecting the brain, lung and heart ending with a tragic outcome. My friend survived but it cost him both legs below the knee.
Excellent documentary worthy of the British who produced it.
Perhaps more people will begin to think and then ask just why the resistance has been so fast. Couldn’t have been from excessive over use when not really needed, say to help livestock reach maturation faster, as well as fattening them up faster too. Hence, humans too.
Not a valid argument
Farmers just wipe out thousands and thousands of animals everyday. Us humans don't normally do that. Unless you're in Russia or China.
Yes overuse thus resistance occurs because viruses constantly mutate to survive that science has know since 1930's. My father degree in pharmacology warned me humans may change or create lethal virus that kills humans for war thus we the people must stop unethical people, organizations and government. How can we give money for research?
Maybe drones, flutter, flutter🥺, big ball scouting where to powder us down Again 🧐hope all is well
Really good documentary. I liked the music and recognized Eno's composition. It seems medicine comes round full circle back to nature.
the pharmaffia won't allow it!!!!!
We as humans need to implement everything descoverd by science to move our world forward for the betterment of mankind , the ignorance and greed must stop, I pray this moves forward, God Bless the world!
It's ignorant and greedy to implement everything "by science" and its ignorant and greedy to assume we are moving "forward" or "for the better of mankind". Currently, we in the west have poisoned our water, air and soil to a possibly irreversible amount in particularly due to science, greed and ignorance 😂
Bruh!? This reminds me of the Laetrile controversy before it was banned in the 60s.
Aww the little phage is our friend
The same people that promote wars all over the world held the powerful pharmaceutical companies that keeps us sick.
The last pand.emic was just another example of this situation. After vac.c.ination (spelled wrong with a purpose) many started to suffer from various diseases or in many cases evolved to even more deadly conditions.
My mother is now suffering from hearth disease, I personally have big troubles with infection, every time I need dental procedures or any kind o surgery compared to what it used to be. But doctors still insist on using the same dangerous antibiotics indiscriminately, I am looking at a box of Amoxicillin that I left half taken because didn't have any effect anymore (it's the third time in aprox. 4 months that I have taken it).
Thanks for sharing!
Film made back in 1997!
1979 I think?
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@@sharlie620011997 copyright date at end in Roman numerals.
Awesome!
Amazing
Why put loud music in the background.
Thanks for the upload. From the days when the BBC made decent programmes.
Exactly and now they spread russophobia and cancel culture...😢
They still do. Did you became brainwashed with conspiracy theories of 'alternative media'..?
What is up with the irritating music on the background??
Of all the beautiful music in the world the crapis the best you could FIND?? Don't know if I can continue to watch this which I find super interesting but my ears are hurting !!
Probably to beat the algorithms ..so that it won't be taken down ..big pharma wouldn't like this
Folk music from Georgia. Open your mind and ears a bit and enjoy the beautiful harmonies and instruments.
Is it still available? And can it cure bacterial infection (Staphylococcus Aureus) in the Urino-Genital System?
If that is the case how can I get Bacteriophage in Africa?
@@lynnstegman1931 thank u
@@lynnstegman1931???
The world or Georgia, needs to duplicate their library in more than one place... So this knowledge will not be lost if something happens to that library. I'm thinking about the library at Alexandria... How much knowledge was lost when it burnt down? Please duplicate this library!📖📚❤
Superb
Not sure what happened, but I think the audio came unsynced.
Sorry about that, it's a real shame. :(
@@judithbunting781❤
Coming from a poor country, if there is a tried and tested medicine for a particular disease why should we apply American standards for such drugs and why the hell it should be the prerogative of Private Companies. Time for responsible governments to think otherwise. Its the existence of humanity that matters and not company profits and their share holders well being.
Thank You Judith ❤
Very relevent information.
It sounds like the negotiations broke down between the venture capitalists and the Georgian Institute professionals about who would own the patents. I would love to know which side, “blew it?”
Someone needs to suck it up and teach the Institute professionals how to write their own patents, so they could then write the papers to get published in the right medical magazines.
The Institute needs to CROWD FUND the development of phages that can be used to save very desperate peoples lives.
It’s the age of the internet. They can offer their services to doctors with patients on their last chance to save a child. When they have a success, they need to apply for a patent for the process, a patent for that phage, and after their financial interests are protected, write a paper to be published.
Agree with you as the Capitalist doesn't understand "for the good of the world" requires large profits instead what is the cost to production that individual people such as myself would donate because I have trusted mother nature she knows best because nowhere is "cost of production" to replicate the phages because Capitalism of the West since 1917 has been trying to discredit everything from any area that has a socialist economic model to benefit the people instead of the greed of men that women need to take power from these men who only care about power not about humanity. Women want their children to thrive and live whereas males have testosterone that if that selfishness isn't removed the species and humanity won't survive.
When a superbug is discovered, how is it that it is not quarantined? Do whatever it takes! Lock everybody up, nobody leaves! Stop it!
The conclusions in the BBC Horizon series are always negative and hopeless. Just when you think things could be better,
Horizon destroys it!
Too bad phages is so easy and changes on its own, it cannot be patented and thus profitable.
Thus this hasn't gone anywhere with venture vultures.
How can a virus cure when genetically the time span
It’s very concerning to me that phage therapy existed in 1997 but still isn’t being used now. Is the lack of meaningful progress due to technical challenges or capitalism?
God bless Georgia's doctors and scientists. Woe unto you war mongers who work for the Eletists!!!! Selah ✝️
The audio needs bacteriophage therapy.
Fascinating 🧐👍🏻
all seeing, all knowing and all crooked FDA
3 years ago I would have believed the information in this video. Now we know the truth of Germs and the Terrain.
What do you mean? You don't believe macrophages exist??
Viruses look creepy.
Have they tryed domestos
no because it only kills 99.9% of the bacteria
Bacteriophages
that backtieria is like vonsstrousure stepincockolofs disease thats from russ ia
I wonder if this is the one where they manipulated Chromosome 7 lamb1 ?
So can solve this 😊
Why aren’t the hospitals stepping up and making sure the facility is sterilized on regular basis?
That is exactly what caused the problem in the first place.
That's what caused the problem in the first place
I imagine the medical staff have budget restraints- you can see some upgrades are needed, the walls etc.
I was prescribed antibiotics for sore throat like penicillin.
Gargle with hot as you can stand it, without burning yourself* coffee. All day off and on works Everytime for me No milk,cream or sugars. Black and hot not warm.
Gargle with hot as you can stand it, without burning yourself* coffee. All day off and on works Everytime for me No milk,cream or sugars. Black and hot not warm.
Bacteriophage are as amazing flagellum motors.
I dread to think how much great science articles exist in India before they used English or allowed foreign journals.
I have greater faith in the Georgian people than the current American pharma business model.
How can this be ignored?Guessing it's because it was a Soviet discovery.
Its not evolution, its adaptation, ne new genetic information is added
6:06 Vacteria resistente a los antibioticos 6:52 La solución: un virus 20:00 ignorada por el Oeste
35:40 Discover magazine
I’ve heard of the use of bacteriophages after the terrible Colectiv club fire in Romania.
Hi judith are you on linkedin
i've wanted to import the OTC phages to USA. simply send a box from manufacturer and i could rebox them in english , sell them here in USA. i'm not in it for profit. i could never find anyone in the east or west that would help me do this.
Probably would be illegal.....they always protect Big Pharma......no matter the cost of lives & suffering! The almighty dollar is all that matters!
Good luck.
Boils down to money.
You can thank your FDA for that. I can imagine you would get a huge fine if you got caught selling them if you did get them.
@@calthorp i would hope to look at it as advertising for phages. phage people i've talked to say it would tarnish the usa phage image. selling commie virus
here in red dich for me being organist is like (wokking) non (air) 🤣
what if it infects the patients and kills the patients instead of having it cured?
Watch the video again, it explains that each phage (virus) only kills a particular bacteria.
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You mean like chemotherapy ? Ask the doctors that use it in those other countries. Seems to me it would be safer than the super bacteria that definitely kills oeople!
You mean like how "accidents" -- which mostly includes medical accidents -- is one of the top 5 reasons for death in the US? The CURRENT way heavily kills; finding a solution to pharmaceuticals would actually help.
You would need the correct phage for the infection you are aiming to cure
Covid should tell you everything about big farmer the government the so called news etc.
Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.
fredatieria is a foxia complexia from russia
English please
im i (organist)
Can it cure cancer
No.
It’s not a new frontier this is a reenactment of a Georgian (country not state) video and is misleading
Hi, This is the original of that filming in Georgia at the Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology in Tblisi. I know. I was there.
Communists love WE THE PEOPLE ❤
Sound like covid-19
The New Ivermectin
Where do you get it, what is it branded under?
should dis infuct everything wash your anns dirty backtier ria 🤣
7:40 almost 8 minutes pass while you build up your drama about "magic potion" until you disclose what you should have disclosed at the outset, that they're using a virus
Depends on the virus or bacteria. We are each a unique ecosystem of helpful and harmful bacteria and viruses living alongside our own cells. Many body processes depend on helpful bacteria. These phage viruses eat harmful bacteria.
This is new to me. I didnt realized this diffrence from democratic world complaint about high medical cost.
Amazing