Sunday, March 10, 2013

Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat" - medical chief

Top News Rom - Top News Comments Photos Videos
Read more :
Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat" - medical chief

LONDON (Reuters) – Antibiotic resistance poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor surgery risk dying from infections that can no longer be treated, Britain’s top health official said on Monday. Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, said global action is needed to fight antibiotic, or antimicrobial, resistance and fill a drug “discovery void” by researching and developing new medicines to treat emerging, mutating infections.

Continue reading here:
Antibiotic resistance a "catastrophic threat" – medical chief

No comments:

Post a Comment