Our entire medical system really relies on antibiotics.
This would be the biggest health crisis that we've experienced this century.
We don't hear about it. But it's already here.
Nobody is safe, until we're all safe.
What would a world without antibiotics look like?
Well, I think it would look a lot like the past, where a lot of people would die younger than they do now.
Just think about war - more people died of infections and their wounds, than died actually on the battlefield.
The discovery of various classes of antibiotics in the 20th Century had a profound impact on health care.
So treatment of infection suddenly became very straightforward, and it's something that we benefit a lot from today.
Antibiotics protect people during operative surgery - Caesarean sections, replacement joints, let alone cancer treatments.
