Episode Detail: Disease Warriors/Rise of the Superbugs - Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge
Debut: This three-part series follows “warriors” battling public-health threats around the world. Part 1 examines the role vaccines play in their arsenal and the limits of antibiotics in fighting infections. In India and Nigeria, the world's last polio cases are the target of vaccines. But Kenya's battle against HIV/AIDS remains vexing, and in Peru, doctors struggle against drug-resistant strains of TB. “After years of fighting back,” says narrator Brad Pitt, “our medicines are failing.”
