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In recent years, antibiotic resistance has risen to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. Prof Timothy Walsh from the University of Cardiff told the BBC News website it's a case of "when not if" for this global resistance.
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“It’s good news and bad news,” says Dr. Jon LaPook, CBS News chief medical correspondent. Antibiotics is necessary for treating a lot of infections.
The list of serious infections in the U.S. is growing. In particular pneumonia, tuberculosis, skin infections, blood poisoning, gonorrhoea, and several foodborne illnesses.
We must avoid the overuse of antibiotics before it raises to a potentially deadly risk: drug-resistant. Dr. Jon LaPook says in an interview:
“The more you use antibiotics, the more you get antibiotics resistance.”10 He is right and that is the bad thing about antibiotics.
Is there any hope in the future? There's not been discovered a new class of antibiotics since the1980s. Some drug companies are rushing and working around the clock to developing new antibiotics.
Scientists are trying to develop other kinds of antibacterial drugs for example organic compounds made from insects.
11 Doctors are under huge pressure not to hand antibiotics out like candy. Some doctors did that before even for infections caused by viruses, which can't be cured this way. 12 There are some changes farmers could make globally.
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