Dr. David Suzuki explains how antibiotics have been over prescribed for decades and it has led to the fact that now there are bacterial infections that are resistant to them, and people are dying by the thousands.
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Bruce Mohun balances doom with genuine scientific wonder.
Writing
Suzuki's narration makes bacterial resistance weirdly gripping.
Director
Bruce Mohun
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This aired when 'antibiotic resistance' was still niche—pre-dating pandemic-era public health literacy by years. Suzuki was practically screaming into the void.
David Suzuki has hosted 'The Nature of Things' since 1979, making him Canadian television's most enduring science communicator. This episode fits his late-career pivot toward urgent environmental warnings.
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