NEW YORK: The world is entering an antibiotic crisis in which routine injuries such as a skinned knee could potentially be fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO.)
Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO, has warned that bacteria carried by humans are starting to become so resistant to common antibiotics that every antibiotic ever developed, including drugs used to treat tuberculosis and malaria, is at risk of becoming useless.
As a result, Chan claimed, day-to-day treatments may become impossible, which could bring about “the end of modern medicine as we know it.”
The primary cause of the antimicrobial resistance has been largely attributed to the misuse of antibiotics, which are inappropriately prescribed and used too frequently and for too long. In order to overcome this potential crisis, the WHO has pleaded for medical innovation and has appealed to governments across the world to support research of antimicrobial resistance.
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