Silent Pandemic

Silent Pandemic (2022)

Documentary

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

Casts

	Agnes Balasa as Self - Concerned Person
	Ella Balasa as Self - Concerned Person
	Ana Berceanu as Self - Oncologist CHRU Besançon
	Sally Davies as Self - British Physician, UK Special Envoy on AMR
	Alena Ehlers as Self - Concerned Person
	Christina Fuhrman as Self - Concerned Person
	Dane Fuhrman as Self - Concerned Person
	Claire Gordon as Self - Microbiologist Fleming Fund
	Rumina Hasan as Self - Microbiologist
	Zahra Hasan as Self - Molecular Pathologist
	Mba Isaac Stoner as Self - Managing Director and Co-Founder of Octagon Therapeutics
	Moses Joloba as Self - HoD of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
	Ramanan Laxminarayan as Self - Director Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington
	Badru Miyule as Self - Concerned Person
	Christine Najuka as Self - Microbiologist
	Gladys Nambayo as Self - Concerned Person
	Farah Qamar as Self - Pediatrician
	Lance Price as Self - Professor at George Washington University and co-director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center

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