Mammoth increment in death due to antibiotic resistance predicted - UN concerned

●This prediction reveals the extent of threat antibiotic resistance is posing which is really becoming a huge concern,  and most of it is due to irrational use of antibiotics.
●Concerned from this threat, for the fourth time United Nations (UN) has elevated a health issue to crisis level.

●More than 200,000 newborn children are estimated to die each year from infections that do not respond to available antibiotics. ●“In a world where all our antibiotics could be ineffective, common infections would kill once again and surgeries and cancer therapies, which are dependent on antibiotics, would be threatened,” notes Joseph Libuano.

●There are already cases of XDR TB Reported in more than 100 countries.
Resistance to drygs against Malaria, HIV is also on rise. Many more infections like Pneumococcal, Nesseria gonorrhoeae, Salmonella etc.

●Focused research on the issue has led to studies that rely on recent breakthroughs, such as CRISPR, to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria, by transferring “edited” DNA to resistant bacteria, thus killing off resistant strains.

●For the Staphylococcus aureus infections newer type of antibiotics are being tested which contain iridium content, a transition metal that doesn’t easily breakdown, which could prove to be a more effective way to deliver antibiotics.

●German scientists may also have found a crucial weapon in our fight against superbugs. After discovering a strain of bacterium called Staphylococcus lugdunensis, researchers developed a drug based on the strain that could potentially become a new class of antibiotics.
●So for better tomorrow we must unite to step up against the injudicious and irrational use of the antibiotics. Unless this could prove to be catastrophic.