September 21, 2016.
The scourge of antibiotic resistance is coming to the United Nations forum. A major meeting will be held today and should lead to a global project to regulate the use of these drugs and limit their devastating consequences.
Major meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly
Antibiotic resistance will be the subject of a major meeting, organized on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, this Wednesday, September 21. The greats of this world will look at these “superbugs” which worry the scientific community and which make more and more diseases difficult to treat.
The stated objective of this meeting is to put in place the means to supervise the use of antibiotics and to release public and private funds to stem this threat which weighs on humanity. The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes that in the text, the first version of which will be presented at the end of the meeting, sufficiently strong measures will be taken to allow an effective fight against antimicrobial resistance..
Antibiotic resistance could kill 10 million people by 2050
” We are losing our ability to deal with infections : not only is the death toll threatening to increase, our entire ability to treat patients is threatened. It also threatens our ability to produce enough food. “, Notes Keiji Fukuda, special representative of the director of the WHO, referring in particular to the use of antibiotics in agricultural breeding.
Antibiotic resistance has been the subject of real global awareness in recent years. And for good reason, recently, a study commissioned by the British government showed that in a few years, resistance to antibiotics could be more deadly than cancer now. By 2050, the study noted, ten million people, or one every three seconds, could die from a common infection. in itself, but whose drugs used to combat it have not been effective enough.
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