Simple Illnesses may Kill People in Near Future because of Bugs’ resistance to Antibiotics
The World Health Organization has warned that superbugs are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics and the time is not far when the superbug will become impervious to antibiotics. The situation would become so severe that even simple illnesses will star killing people once again.
The one possible reason behind increasing resistance of bugs to antibiotics is over prescription of antibiotics by doctors. The misuse of antibiotics is leading superbugs to grow relentlessly.
The resistance for antibiotics has not started recently, but it has been happening for years in different species of bacteria, said Dr. Peter Collignon from the Australian National University's School of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. However, it could be rightly said that the condition has exacerbated during the last 10 years.
"If you look at data from India for instance, half their common infections, the e-coli bug that is a common cause of urinary tract infections and blood stream infections, is for practical purposes untreatable", said Dr. Collignon.
Dr. Collignon said there are number of other options as well that could be adopted to treat people with serious infections, but some patients become untreatable. And it happens because a lot of such patients do not have many options for antibiotics and in some cases there is no option.
He said that being a clinician, he feels great to be able to treat very sick people, he just gives them an antibiotic and they feel much better within a few days. On the other hand, it becomes very distressing for him not being able to treat patients with life-threatening infections that were treatable until recently.
The picture is not restricted to specific areas over the world, but is the same everywhere else. It has been witnessed that the capacity of treating serious infections is reducing all over the world.
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