
Global threat of antibiotic resistance highlighted in new film supported by Pfizer, MSD, Shionogi and AMR Action Fund
A new film about a global disease threat lays out dire scenarios that echo Hollywood disaster movie plotlines. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), however, is very real — and the film debuting on Tuesday tracks the global scientific race to stop it.
“Race Against Resistance: The Life and Death Struggle to Save Antibiotics,” funded by Pfizer, Shionogi, MSD and the AMR Action Fund, tracks the struggle to solve “one of the most significant existential threats to humanity,” as one researcher says in the film’s trailer.
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