Antibiotic resistance to superbugs — ‘We’re reaching breaking point and running out of options’. The number of patients with life-threatening conditions who have failed to respond to antibiotics has risen a third in six years. An expert on the looming crisis explains what measures need to be taken. For most of us, antibiotic resistance and superbugs are a rather distant worry. Like global warming and nuclear annihilation, they get stuffed into our mental pending-threats-to-humanity file and we get on with our lives.
16,500 people with life-threatening conditions did not respond to antibiotics last year in the UK
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