Every year, 25,000 people die from antibiotic-resistant infections in the EU
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Britain faced a "powerful" increase in the number of antibiotic-resistant infections caused by E. Coli, writes the Independent.
"Experts argue that the increase in resistance to antibiotic infections poses an equally serious threat to human health in the world, as well as the emergence of new diseases such as AIDS or an influenza pandemic ," the author of the article, Jeremy Lawrence, notes.
Professor Peter Hawke, clinical microbiologist and head of the British government's working group on antibiotic resistance, said that the problem of antibiotic resistance in medicine is of the same importance as the problem of global warming in other areas.
According to him, "slow but sure growth" in the number of drug-resistant strains is fraught with the transformation of common infectious diseases into incurable diseases. In the European Union, from bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics, 25,000 people die annually.
"This is a worldwide problem - it does not have borders," the expert said, "there is a very good policy of antibiotics for humans and animals in the UK, but we are not alone. We need to think on a global scale."
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