Antibiotics emergency

THE world is running out of effective antibiotics and the problem is a global emergency, the World Health Organisation has warned.

The growing resistance to drugs that fight infections could “seriously jeopardise” progress made in modern medicine, the WHO said. The remarks come after a WHO report found a serious lack of drugs in development that can overcome antibiotic resistance.

Health experts have already warned that resistance to antimicrobial drugs could cause a bigger threat to mankind than cancer.