Rise of the Superbugs

Time to be headed towards a post-antibiotic era, a world where common infections could become life-threatening. That's the message from The World Health Organisation. Rise of the Superbugs is a six-part series about antimicrobial resistance or "superbugs, telling the scary (but solvable) story of superbugs. The series explores the medical systems, through personal stories, waterways and acts of (human) resistance. Time to talk to experts as everyone digs into the medicine cabinets, hospitals and backyards, the known past and predicted futures.Rise of the Superbugs reveals where the media has gone wrong in telling the superbug story and why people need to retell it.