Will Diseases Soon Become 'Impossible To Treat'?

Experts Fear Diseases 'Impossible To Treat' -- The Independent

Alarming rise in bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Government report finds.

Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the spectre of diseases that are impossible to treat.

Experts say the growth of antibiotic resistance now poses as great a threat to global health as the emergence of new diseases such as Aids and pandemic flu.

Professor Peter Hawkey, a clinical microbiologist and chair of the Government's antibiotic-resistance working group, said that antibiotic resistance had become medicine's equivalent of climate change.

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