Dominic Hughes

It sounds like they are very common, both in civilian life and in military life.

It sounds like they are very common, both in civilian life and in military life.

Don, since I was a kid, there has been talk of of in particular antibiotic resistance, of all of us becoming resistant or the threat of resistance, of no longer being touched properly by antibiotics. Can you just explain how the resistance builds and how we understand the pattern of it?

Don, since I was a kid, there has been talk of of in particular antibiotic resistance, of all of us becoming resistant or the threat of resistance, of no longer being touched properly by antibiotics. Can you just explain how the resistance builds and how we understand the pattern of it?

So why don't we just discover some new antimicrobials to get round the... Resistance that's trying to get around the ones we've got already.

So why don't we just discover some new antimicrobials to get round the... Resistance that's trying to get around the ones we've got already.

We've been talking about resistance to antimicrobials as if it's just a sort of one thing. Is it or do you have different kinds of resistance?

We've been talking about resistance to antimicrobials as if it's just a sort of one thing. Is it or do you have different kinds of resistance?

Tom, can I just ask you a personal question? I mean, you know, you're our global health correspondent. You've been sort of wallowing in all this stuff for a fair old time. I mean, does it alarm you? I mean, does it make you think, gosh, sound the alarm.

Tom, can I just ask you a personal question? I mean, you know, you're our global health correspondent. You've been sort of wallowing in all this stuff for a fair old time. I mean, does it alarm you? I mean, does it make you think, gosh, sound the alarm.

So we've looked at the revolutionary development of antimicrobials, their massive importance to modern medicine and the threat of developing a resistance to them. Next, we're going to hear how antimicrobial resistance is being driven by global conflict from Ukraine to Gaza. This is The Global Story. We bring you one big international story in detail five days a week.

So we've looked at the revolutionary development of antimicrobials, their massive importance to modern medicine and the threat of developing a resistance to them. Next, we're going to hear how antimicrobial resistance is being driven by global conflict from Ukraine to Gaza. This is The Global Story. We bring you one big international story in detail five days a week.

Follow or subscribe wherever you listen. Earlier on, we told you about the near miraculous difference that antimicrobials made to the treatment of battlefield infections when they were first mass produced more than 80 years ago. But on the front lines in Ukraine... War is rapidly undermining the power of these treatments.

Follow or subscribe wherever you listen. Earlier on, we told you about the near miraculous difference that antimicrobials made to the treatment of battlefield infections when they were first mass produced more than 80 years ago. But on the front lines in Ukraine... War is rapidly undermining the power of these treatments.

The BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdulrasilov has been speaking to soldiers and hospital staff to see how antimicrobial resistance is affecting the ability to treat casualties. This is what he found.

The BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdulrasilov has been speaking to soldiers and hospital staff to see how antimicrobial resistance is affecting the ability to treat casualties. This is what he found.

Well, that was the BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdulrasilov talking about what he found in Ukraine, an extraordinary illustration there of the role of war building up antimicrobial resistance. Listening to that and still with me is the BBC's global health correspondent, Dominic Hughes. Dom, is the situation that Abdul Jalil just described, is that mirrored, as far as we understand, in other conflicts?

Well, that was the BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdulrasilov talking about what he found in Ukraine, an extraordinary illustration there of the role of war building up antimicrobial resistance. Listening to that and still with me is the BBC's global health correspondent, Dominic Hughes. Dom, is the situation that Abdul Jalil just described, is that mirrored, as far as we understand, in other conflicts?

I'm thinking particularly, of course, of Gaza.

I'm thinking particularly, of course, of Gaza.