Without action on antibiotics, medicine will return to the dark ages | Ed Whiting
by Ed Whiting from on (#2Q14E)
Continued overprescribing and abuse could lead to more people dying of resistant infections than cancer. Only global cooperation can solve the problem
When Prof Sally Davies published The Drugs Don't Work in 2013, it wasn't some allusion to a Verve number from the 1990s, but a sombre warning of the growing threat posed by bacteria evolving resistance to life-saving antibiotics. If this were left unaddressed, she argued, it would lead to the erosion of modern medicine as we know it.
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