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Training 2 Complete the flow-chart The History of Antibiotics in Exercise 1 by choosing from options A-I. 1 Woman: So I think it was in 1928, wasn’t it – that Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin. And whereas before – if people had a cut that
went sceptic – say on their hand – or a sore throat - they knew it could
potentially kill them – but penicillin changed all that. You could recover
really quickly if you were treated with penicillin, so people weren’t so
frightened any more.
2 Man: And then chloramphenicol was discovered after penicillin, and
these antibiotics were so successful that pharmaceutical companies
really began to take notice. They thought that if they could go out and
find new antibiotics, the financial gain would be enormous. And so…
3 Woman: And because of that, the companies hired hundreds of people
and sent them out to places like jungles and mountains. And their job
was to collect specimens from the soil - specimens that would hopefully
contain the kind of microorganisms that could help the companies create
new antibiotics.
4 Man: And so, because it was so expensive and so time-consuming, and
they hadn’t really achieved anything, manufacturers in the US and in
Europe gave up on that approach. And instead they decided to make
artificial kinds of antibiotic - try and reproduce them in the laboratory,
I mean.
5 Woman: And since the 1970s, almost no new antibiotics have been made.
And that’s why doctors and surgeons are just prescribing the same ones
again and again, even if they know they aren’t really going to work.
6 Man: And according to the research I read, there’s about 700,000 people
a year now, who – well, when they get sick – and it could be a small thing
or a major illness – they don’t get better when they’re given antibiotics.
And this kind of drug resistance is becoming more common.
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