Health Report - Full program podcast Folgen

Australia is notorious for being the home of a huge number of the world's most venomous animals — funnelweb spiders, box jellyfish and brown snakes among them.

Antibiotics are obviously a very useful drug, and have been for decades. Trouble is, disease-causing bacteria get used to them, and become resistant. That's what leads to so-called superbugs that can't be treated with modern antibiotics.

After 30 years of intense effort and billions of dollars, the battle to rid the world of devastating polio virus seems almost won.