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Digital story co-created by PhD student marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week
22 November 2023
A digital story co-led by PhD student Becky McCall, from the StoryBug study, marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.
Becky McCall, PhD student from UCL Institute of Health Informatics, co-created a digital story ‘The False Peak’ as part of the StoryBug study, which is funded by the Medical Research Foundation. This study involves sharing stories of those who have been affected by drug-resistant infections and aims to change the way people think about and value antibiotics.
This World AMR Awareness Week, the digital story ‘The False Peak’ has been released. The story is by Laila who shares her experience of having sepsis following a series of health issues. With a weakened immune system from three years of chemotherapy for advanced bowel cancer, 30-year-old Laila had received multiple courses of life-saving antibiotics, but one day they stopped working. Her infection proved resistant to every antibiotic tried and led to near fatal sepsis. After emergency surgery that bought some time, the microbiologists found a drug that worked. Watch the video below.