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CDC admits drug-resistant infections out of control
Federal health officials reported Monday that at least two million Americans fall ill from antibiotic-resistant bacteria every year and that at least 23,000 die from those infections, putting a hard number on a growing public health threat. It was the first time that federal authorities quantified the effects of organisms that many antibiotics are powerless […]
Big Pharma fails to develop new antibiotics
No new classes of antibiotics had been introduced since 1987 whereas new pathogens were emerging every year, and existing bugs were developing resistance to current treatments.”If we don’t take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21737844 “We haven’t […]
Dirty Babylon 