How likely is a 21st-century epidemic of the plague? Unlike other diseases, the plague is alive and well in some parts of the world, but scientists and doctors are continuing to develop better treatments.

Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.

In this episode, we take a look at front line workers in the fight against Ebola, a Dengue virus epidemic in China and safe medicines for diarrhea and malaria.

Improper use of antibiotics can create strains of drug-resistant pathogens. Fourty-five thousand cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis are found in the US each year. In one third of these cases, the patient dies. In Russia, at least...

TB is a moving target. It’s a complex, mutating virus that is appearing in hundreds of different, drug-resistant strains. There are 16 different vaccines now undergoing trials – but how will we know which will quickly be made ineffective...

Capsule in a bottle.

LEADIN:

A clinical study is underway to confirm whether a special bug resistant coating for medical devices can...

Sounding alarms about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that if the global community does not confront the problem soon, the world...

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Sounding alarms about the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that if the global...

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A new report says one out of 25 hospitalized patients gets a healthcare-associated infection, and one in nine of them d
ies.
The Centers for Disease...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus056427For the first time, a U.S. patient has found to be been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort treatment, scientists said Thursday.The patient - a 49-year-old...

At the Bioluminescent Superbugs Laboratory (BSL) in Auckland, glow-in-the-dark bacteria are being used in the search for new and more efficient...

Karachi, Pakistan, October 12, 2010

1. Various close up of cockroach in laboratory
tank
2. Medium close of laboratory assistant entering the...

"Nightmare bacteria" with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are...

Jan.24 -- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., discusses efforts to fight malaria in Africa, China's global influence, and the danger of the Trump administration's "America First" policies. He speaks with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief...

AP Television

Khayelitsha, Cape Town, 2nd October
2008
1. Wide of Khayelits
ha street
2. Medium of Khay
elitsha street
3. Medium of Ubuntu...

Oakland, California - 3 August 2012

>16x9
1. Wide of people walking into a farme
rs' market
2. Tight of
eggs at market
San Francisco,...

LEADIN:

HEADLINE: Czech officials seek airline passengers exposed to TB (tuberculosis-infection)

CAPTION: Heath officials in the Czech Republic are joining in the search for passengers who may have sat near a man infected with a...

1. Wide of conference on Avian Influenza in Humans

2. Various of audience listening to sp
eaker
3. Wide of scientist speaking
at podium
4. Mid shot o
f man listening
5. Set up shot of Doctor Jochen...

English/Nat

At the largest camp for victims of the flooding in Mozambique, relief workers fear a fatal outbreak of mala
ria.
UNICEF and other aid agencies have set up a...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus032821A woman traveling from India who tested positive for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis is being treated at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, however officials say...

Beijing - 21 June 2005

1. Wide shot of banner reading: "Live Chickens, Live Fish", pan to poultry/fish
shop
2. Chicke
ns in cage
3.
Chicken feeding
4. Set up shot of the World Health...

Lesotho, Southern Africa, March 17, 2010

1. Medium close up of TB patient having her chest checked with a stethos
cope
1....