Antibiotic resistance -- a growing threat

Africa Business Daily: Public health experts have been warning for over a decade that a ‘post-antibiotic era’ is rapidly approaching when the spread of antibiotic resistance means that effective antibiotic therapy will no longer be effective — and the situation is deteriorating with ever-increasing speed.

Despite the scale of the threat, resistance is still not taken sufficiently seriously by many in the health sector. Surveillance is needed to monitor the spread of resistance, and thus understand the scale of the problem, in order to provide crucial data for the development of containment strategies....

Graphic representing antibiotic resistance by "Wykis," Wikimedia Commons