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The invisible extinction / Microbe Media presents ; a film by Sarah Schenck and Steven Lawrence ; produced and directed by Steven Lawrence and Sarah Schenck.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bacteria.
- Microorganisms.
- Medical microbiology.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (86 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Invisible extinction : the race to save our vanishing microbes
- Place of Publication:
- [Sausalito, California] : Ro*Co Films, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Two globetrotting microbiologists, Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser, race to save our vanishing microbes before it's too late. The Invisible Extinction joins them on this urgent quest from the USA to Venezuela, China, Israel, and Switzerland, revealing how the overuse of antibiotics, elective C-sections, and processed foods are driving the destruction of our inner ecology, which is happening even faster than climate change. At the same time, the film tells the stories of three patients, in the USA and China, who suffer from life-threatening diseases triggered by microbial loss and are trying experimental treatments that hold hope. As the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Marty pivots to focus on how our microbes may help protect us from the virus and future pandemics, while Gloria spearheads the creation of an international microbe vault to safeguard precious specimens.
- Participant:
- Featuring Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Martin Blaser.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed June 16, 2023).
- "Inspired by the work of Martin Blaser and Gloria Dominguez-Bello and by the book, "Missing Microbes" by Martin J. Blaser, MD."-- End credits.
- Nominated 2022 Gullugen Award, Bergen International Film Festival
- OCLC:
- 1390456333
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