Supermoms Against Superbugs: Meet the Movement

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Supermoms Against Superbugs is a movement of mothers, fathers, doctors, and farmers who are working to ensure the responsible use of antibiotics in veterinary and human medicine, spur a robust pipeline of new drugs, and increase funding across the federal government to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

In this 60-second video, get the facts and learn what's at stake from some of those working closest to this critical issue.

Get more antibiotic resistance information: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/antibiotic-resistance-project

*Full transcript*
Patient: Every year more than 2 million Americans

Farmer 1: 2 million Americans

Doctor 1: get an antibiotic-resistant infection

Doctor 2: And 23,000 people die

Farmer 1: 23,000 people die from superbugs

Doctor 1: I ‘ve seen too many people with antibiotic resistant infections

Researcher: We are running out of the very drugs

Farmer 1: The very drugs

Patient: That save lives

Farmer 2: But it doesn’t have to be this way

Doctor 2: But it doesn’t have to be this way

Doctor 1: If we stop giving antibiotics to patients who don’t need them

Farmer 2: If we could be safer, smarter, and more sustainable about the usage of antibiotics

Patient: We can save antibiotics

Doctor 1: I’m a doctor and I save antibiotics for those patients who really need them

Patient: I’m a survivor and antibiotics saved my life

Farmer 1: I’m a farmer and I want to save antibiotics that save lives

Researcher: I’m a researcher and I’m fighting superbugs

Patient: I’m a supermom fighting against superbugs

Farmer 1:Let’s save antibiotics

Doctor 2: We could save lives



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