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Thursday, 7 April, 2011
World Health Organization warns of threat posed by drug-resistant bacteria
It’s World Health Day and the World Health Organization (WHO) is drawing attention to the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria, which it considers a potentially serious problem. “In the absence of urgent corrective and protective actions,” the Geneva-based organization says, “the world is heading towards a post-antibiotic era, in which many common infections will no longer have a cure and, once again, kill unabated.” WRS’s Pete Forster asks Didier Pittet, a Geneva-based epidemiologist and adviser to the WHO, if the threat is over-stated. Forster also talks to Dr. John Rex, a vice president with the pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca, about why drug firms cannot readily develop new medicines to combat these microbes:
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