New threat to the elimination of 10 million humans
There is a need to take urgent measures to control the use of antibiotics before they stop giving effect on the human body and cause a humanitarian catastrophe awesome.
New international estimates have warned that germs resistant to antibiotics can kill 10 million people each year around the world by 2050, and become the antibiotics mortal threat than cancer now.
It is possible that the amount resulting from antibiotic resistance economic losses of about $ 100 trillion.
This threat to humanity and is able to micro-organisms to develop their properties so as not to kill antibiotics, the report indicates that more than two million people in the United States are infected annually with the bacteria and causes the death of 23 thousand cases.
And oversaw the report, British economist Lord Jim O'Neill at the request of the British government, and it took two years of work to find strategies to avoid excess mortality due to the problem of microbial resistance to antibiotics.
The report pointed out that antibiotic resistance is increasing concern in all parts of the world, as a result of the use of many antibiotics excessively to treat simple cases such as the common cold; which threatens to become ineffective antibiotics.
Their report calls educating the general public, especially children and adolescents and make them aware of this threat. And activation of international cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry experts and non-governmental organizations to limit the description antibiotics is necessary, and rational use.
The report also encouraged pharmaceutical makers to develop effective treatments, and called for investment in research into new treatments support, stressing the role of governments and states in the rational use of antibiotics in agriculture.
Source: "The Independent"
