WHO: Immunity to Antibiotics The Worrying

Before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the world's first antibiotic, in 1928, countless numbers of people who died from injuries and common infections. For example, 18 percent of American soldiers died of pneumonia in World War I. However, in World War II, after the discovery of penicillin, only one percent who die from the disease.

WHO warned that the world is almost out of medicine is efficacious. Tuberculosis Eradication Affairs Director of WHO's Mario Raviglione, said resistance to these drugs as a global threat.
He said, as broadcast on VOA, Sunday (10 / 4), "Resistance to the drugs resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people every year. In addition, resistance to drugs complicate the treatment and eradication of infectious diseases in the past can be treated. We like being in a period before the discovery of antibiotics. We go back to the 1930s or 40s. "
The discovery and use of antibiotics to treat diseases such as leprosy, tuberculosis, gonorhea, and syphilis, to change the way medicine and human history. But, now reduced antibiotic efficacy, because it is less widely used, overused, or misused, resulting in increased resistance to these drugs.
TB treatment, malaria, HIV, pneumonia, and infectious diseases other dangerous difficult because resistance to drugs increases.Deputy Director General of WHO, Keiji Fukuda, says that evolution and resistance to drugs is very alarming.
WHO has six ways to oversee the provision of medicines. The organization is urging the enforcement of supervision and monitoring system to detect the emergence of problem drug resistance. WHO also recommends the use of appropriate drugs, measures to prevent and eradicate the spread of disease, and research and development of new vaccines and drugs to treat infectious diseases .*