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What if antibiotics stop working?

As we become more and more resistant to antibiotics, Liam Shaw, author of Dangerous Miracle, tells Martin Geissler and Laura Miller why governments need to do more now.

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Liam Shaw (pictured), author of Dangerous Miracles, tells us why less than a hundred years after the first antibiotic discovery, governments now need to step in because big pharma companies won’t.

Scotcast is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Scottish news podcast, with Martin Geissler, Laura Miller and Natalie Higgins.

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