\u201cThe world is heading towards a post-antibiotic era in which common infections will once again kill. If current trends continue, sophisticated interventions, like organ transplantation, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy, and care of pre-term infants, will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake. This may even bring the end of modern medicine as we know it.”
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That\u2019s what the Director-General of the World Health Organization said last April when she appeared before the United Nations. Dr Margaret Chan wanted to warn of what many deem to be one of the greatest threats to global health today: the increasingly common problem of infections that do not respond to antibiotic treatment.<\/p>\n
It sounds alarmist, but it might actually not be alarmist enough.<\/p>\n
The efficacy of the world\u2019s antibiotics is quickly decaying \u2013 the drugs we\u2019re using to treat infections are working less and less. If we continue at this rate without intervention, we may find that there is not a single antibiotic left to treat any type of bacterial infection.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis would really change life as we know it,\u201d says Dr David Weiss, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Center at Emory University. \u201cConsider going to back to an era when a minor accident like a scrape could lead to death.\u201d That\u2019s what a world of total antibiotic resistance could lead to.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][nectar_cta btn_style=”arrow-animation” heading_tag=”h4″ text_color=”#282e33″ button_color=”default” link_type=”new_tab” alignment=”left” display=”block” link_text=”Read Full Article on BBC.com” url=”https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20170607-how-we-can-stop-antibiotic-resistance”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1\/12″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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