By Joanna Sugden, Wall Street Journal, April 23 India has lost the war against the toughest forms of antibiotic resistance, largely because of poor sanitation, unregulated use of antibiotics and an absence of drug resistance monitoring, according to the man who discovered a type of drug resistance in bacteria in New Delhi. [...]
McMaster University's Gerry Wright is on the hunt for potential antibiotics CBC News Posted: Apr 21, 2013 10:05 PM ET New antibiotics for superbugs are critically needed to save lives, Canadian and U.S. infectious disease experts warn. When the Infectious Diseases Society of America reviewed progress on development of new drugs this [...]
Today the BBC news website released two separate stories on the growing threat of anti-biotic resistance and the dangers this poses to human civilization. One of them, titled “Antibiotics resistance ‘as big a risk as terrorism’ – medical chief” makes for a pretty scary headline! It warns “routine operations could become [...]