WHO: Antibiotic Resistance Has Gone Global
May 21, 2014| |
World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report that there is widespread resistance to frontline antibiotic drugs around the world. It was found that there is high resistance to drugs designed to battle microbes causing tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, and infections of bloods, wounds, and the urinary tract. Aside from the well-known microbes, WHO also reported increasing resistance in bacteria causing salmonella and gonorrhea, as well as in non-bacterial causal agents of HIV and malaria.
Without concerted disease surveillance and collaboration to slow the spread of resistant microbes, the world is headed for a "post-antibiotic era," warns Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general for health security.
Read the original article at https://www.sciencenews.org/article/drug-resistance-has-gone-global-who-says?utm_source=Society+for+Science+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1b757e0f4a-Editors_picks_week_of_April_28_20145_3_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a4c415a67f-1b757e0f4a-104486537 and the WHO report at http://www.who.int/drugresistance/documents/surveillancereport/en/.
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