Scotcast - What if antibiotics stop working?

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Liam Shaw (pictured), author of Dangerous Miracles, tells us why less than a hundred years after the first antibiotic discovery, governments now need to step in because big pharma companies won’t.

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Published on Thursday, 11th September 2025.

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