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The Trouble with Antibiotics
2014 · Film · documentary · 54 min
FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. Also this hour: An exclusive interview with the family of a young man who died in a nightmare bacteria outbreak that swept through a hospital at the National Institutes of Health.
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In short, it's evolution. Bacteria develop resistance when exposed to antibiotics. They lose their effectiveness.
This will give you a decent overview of antibiotic resistance:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/antibiotic-resistance/en/
If you like to watch documentaries, Frontline has a few on the topic, though each show is several years old now which is an eon to pathogens
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
(on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE4VzFz9PPo )
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trouble-with-antibiotics/