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Antibiotic resistance serious global threat to public health: WHO
Zee Media Bureau
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned in
its new report that resistance to antibiotics poses a serious global
threat to public health.
WHO's new report (its first to globally look at
antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance) reveals that
this grave threat is no longer a prediction for the future but is
happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential
to affect anyone, of any age, in any country.
It depicted “post-antibiotic era”, where people die from simple infections that have been treatable for decades.
“Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders,
the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common
infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can
once again kill,” says Keiji Fukuda, WHO's assistant director-general
for health security.
“Effective antibiotics have been one of the pillars
allowing us to live longer, live healthier, and benefit from modern
medicine. Unless we take significant actions to improve efforts to
prevent infections and also change how we produce, prescribe and use
antibiotics, the world will lose more and more of these global public
health goods and the implications will be devastating,” he added.
The report focuses on seven different bacteria responsible for common, serious diseases such as bloodstream infections (sepsis), diarrhoea, pneumonia, urinary tract infections and gonorrhoea.
The results are worrisome as the so-called "last-resort"
antibiotics no longer work in more than half of people being treated in
countries.
While bacteria naturally mutate to eventually become immune
to antibiotics, the misuse of these drugs - such as doctors
over-prescribing them and patients failing to finish courses has
worsened the crisis.
Urging public to take simple precautions such as washing
hands to prevent bacteria from spreading in the first place, WHO's
report called for better access to clean water, infection control in
healthcare facilities, and vaccination - to reduce the need for
antibiotics.
WHO is also calling attention to the need to develop new
diagnostics, antibiotics and other tools to allow healthcare
professionals to stay ahead of emerging resistance.
This report is kick-starting a global effort led by WHO to address drug resistance.
This will involve the development of tools and standards
and improved collaboration around the world to track drug resistance,
measure its health and economic impacts, and design targeted solutions.
Antibiotics are medicines that either kill or inhibit the
growth of a bacteria, but they cannot cure everything. Different types
of antibiotics are there and each works a little differently, acting on
different types of bacteria.
With Agency Inputs
This is what we by CORNWELL TANZANIA have been warning and teaching about for more than the last 6 years.
We by CORNWELL TANZANIA are only using natural antibiotics and natureopatic remedies which work different to syntetic antibiotics. No resistance are build up against the remedies we are using, compare to syntetic antibiotics which mainly reduce or weaken the immune system; our remedies help to build a stronger and more resistant immunesystem.
It is impossible for any pathogen to build up resistance to our natureopatic remedies because this is not targeting a specific pathogen, antibiotics or antiviral resistant strains are just as effectively attached and killed off because they are not protected by superoxidase Dismutase.
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