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Alarm over drug resistance prompts WHO global action plan
30.04.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Many common and treatable illnesses could become lethal unless action is taken against resistance to antibiotics, UN Radio says referring to the
World Health Organization (WHO) new report.
The report shows for the first time that only one in four countries has plans to tackle the growing problem and so the WHO has designed a strategy to turn the situation around which governments will vote on at the organisations World Health Assembly in May.
It is to be admitted, realizing the real possibility of a world where antibiotics no longer work, the World Health Organization report shows that only 34 countries out of 133 have measures in place to do anything about the problem.
Thus, armed with these findings, report author Dr. Charles Penn said that WHO has come up with a global action plan to turn the situation around.
It involves reducing the over-prescription of antibiotics, better diagnosis methods and better communication about what antibiotics should be used for.
«Without urgent action the world is heading for what is being termed a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries that have been treatable for decades will once again kill,» Dr. Charles Penn stressed.
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