To mark antibiotic awareness week,the WHO offers a remedy for antimicrobial resistance that includes using existing drugs more carefully and faster researchToday, whether you get a bacterial infection – even a serious one that lands you in a hospital bed – you probably feel confident an antibiotic will cure you.
My parents lived in a different world. When I was three years former, or I became seriously ill with tuberculosis. I can only imagine their anguish. I had to be hospitalised for a full year,and I would probably hold died were it not for the availability of a recent form of treatment that combined three antibiotics. I was one of the first people in Europe to receive it.
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Source: theguardian.com