This week on the show: How our overuse of antibiotics puts us all at risk of superbugs that are immune to the drugs we currently have. Plus the dangers of sugar and the taboo of head lice.
A deep dive into family affairs: Children and grandchildren holding their relatives accountable for crimes during Argentina's dictatorship, a dedicated foster parent in Germany who's opened her home to children in need and how a café in Vienna is bringing together generations.
This week on the show: How our overuse of antibiotics puts us all at risk of superbugs that are immune to the drugs we currently have. Plus the dangers of sugar and the taboo of head lice.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us one thing, it's how quickly new diseases can spring up on us. Is the next zoonotic disease brewing in Kenya? And could a robot in India finally bring an end to the unhealthy and banned practice of cleaning blocked sewage pipes by hand? We also hear how how health workers from the Philippines are carving out a new life for themselves abroad.
This week on World in Progress: A Moroccan woman changing the game in the male-dominated world of fishing, a gym that uses energy from working out to power corn mills and oil presses, and how Russian video gaming professionals who have fled to Serbia are shaking things up.