Antibiotic apocalypse
December 23, 2015
While the threat to human
health is described as “low”,
scientists have warned that the
world was on the cusp of a post
antibiotic era when bacteria
resistant to the most common
antibiotic of last resort, colistin,
were discovered in China last
month, reports BBC News.
UK medical authorities believed
they had at least three years before
colistin resistant organisms spread
from China to England, but Public
Health England and the Animal and
Plant Health Agency had already
begun testing for it, finding 15
cases out of more than 24,000
bacterial samples tested.
Salmonella and e.coli were among
the resistant organisms found on
three pig farms, the report said,
with the Chinese resistance cases
attributed to overuse of antibiotics
in agriculture.
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