UN health agency finds high levels of antibiotic resistance to world ’s most common infections

Antimicrobials have been a driver of unprecedented medical and societal advances, but their overuse has resulted in antibiotic resistant bacteria, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting new surveillance data on Monday which reveals widespread resistance to some of the world ’s most common infections, including E. coli and pneumonia.
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news