About this episode
<p>Doctor and special correspondent Avir Mitra takes Executive Editor Soren Wheeler, plus a live studio audience, on a journey from the operating room to inside the body to the farm to the sewers and back again—searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity’s existence as we know it: antibiotic resistance in bacteria. <br><br> This live show, performed in New York City and also in Little Rock, Arkansas, is part of a series we’re doing with Avir that we are calling “Viscera.” Each event is a conversation that takes the audience on a journey into a quirk or question or mystery inside of us, and gives them a visceral experience of the viscera within us. The previous installment of the series was called “<a href="https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-elixir-of-life" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Elixir of Life.</a>” (<a href="https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-elixir-of-life" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-elixir-of-life</a>)<br><br><i>Special thanks to all of Little Rock Public Radio (especially Grace Zafasi and Jonathan Seaborn), Thomas Patterson, The Greene Space staff, CALS Ron Robinson Theater, Tom Philpott, Stephen Roach, Kate Shaw, Alex Wong, Maryn McKenna, and Kerri McClimen.</i><br><br><i><strong>If you are a patients or a doctor, and you are interested in phage therapy, please contact IPATH@ucsd.edu </strong></i><br><br><strong>EPISODE CREDITS: </strong><br> Reported by - Avir Mitra<br> Produced by - Jessica Yung<br> Sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom and Jessica Yung<br> Fact-checking by -Natalie Middleton</p> <p><strong>EPISODE CITATIONS:</strong></p> <p><strong>Videos -</strong></p> <ul> <li>Check out the video from the Viscera live show (and a bonus Q&A with Bruce Stewart-Brown and Steffanie Strathdee) on <i>Radiolab</i>’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkSfPVdglo" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a> (<a href="https://zpr.io/3BK9MqJYVKQA" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://zpr.io/3BK9MqJYVKQA</a>).</li> <li>A <a href="https://youtu.be/BwXVY9g4C78?si=plrJsJP4ivLhU_Yj" rel="noopener noreferrer">deep dive</a> (<a href="https://zpr.io/WNQNfgiNvKeZ" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://zpr.io/WNQNfgiNvKeZ</a>) on bacteriophages with Avir Mitra and Steffanie Strathdee, also on Radiolab’s Youtube..</li> </ul> <p><strong>Books -</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://theperfectpredator.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>The Perfect Predator</i></a><i> </i>(<a href="https://theperfectpredator.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://theperfectpredator.com/</a>) by Dr. Steffanie Strathdee’s telling of her battle against a killer superbug.</li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/plucked-chicken-antibiotics-and-how-big-business-changed-the-way-the-world-eats-maryn-mckenna/9f34d46b1a1b9c1e" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Plucked</i></a><i> (</i><a href="https://zpr.io/PudGMEuzgU9X" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>https://zpr.io/PudGMEuzgU9X</i></a><i>) </i>by Maryn Mckenna a detailed accounting of chicken farming’s practice of using antibiotics.</li> </ul> <p><i>Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. </i><a href="https://radiolab.org/newsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Sign up</i></a><i> (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!</i></p> <p><i>Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of </i><a href="http://members.radiolab.org" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>The Lab</i></a><i> (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.</i></p> <p><i>Follow our show on </i><a href="http://instagram.com/radiolab" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Instagram</i></a><i>, </i><a href="http://twitter.com/radiolab" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Twitter</i></a><i> and </i><a href="http://facebook.com/radiolab" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Facebook</i></a><i> @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing </i><a href="mailto:radiolab@wnyc.org" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>radiolab@wnyc.org</i></a><i>.</i><br><br><i>Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.</i></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>