Posts tagged 'antibiotics'
Survivors reflect on life after deadly bacterial infections
Posted: July 25, 2017 | Tags: antibiotics
Photo courtesy of Cheryl Perron
Ricci with his family
When FRONTLINE’s "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria" premiered in 2013, Addie Rerecich and David Ricci were still struggling with the consequences of devastating antibiotic-resistant infections. Four years later, FRONTLINE and the Workshop's Sarah Robertson caught up with the two survivors to find out how they were doing as part of an updated broadcast of the film tonight, July 25, 2017, nationwide on PBS. Check local listings.
You'll find additional stories and information on FRONTLINE's website and the Workshop's, and can see the trailer and the original film ...
Food safety: 'The Trouble with Chicken' airs in May
Posted: April 13, 2015 | Tags: antibiotics, FDA, Frontline, health, health newss
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our poultry — and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Preview our co-production, which airs May 12 nationwide (check local listings).
Trouble with Antibiotics airs Oct. 14
Posted: Oct. 3, 2014 | Tags: antibiotics
PBS FRONTLINE, in a co-production with the Investigative Reporting Workshop, will air a new one-hour program, "The Trouble with Antibiotics," Oct. 14 at 10 p.m. (check local listings).
Correspondent and reporter David E. Hoffman looks at the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and, in a follow-up to last fall's documentary, "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria," talks with the parents of a young man who died at the National Institutes of Health.
“Nearly four decades ago, scientists and government officials warned that widespread antibiotic use to raise food animals could put human health at risk. Today, we’re ...
