Top doctor warns of "apocalypse" in 20 years as bugs become resistant to antibiotics!!!!!

The drugs won't work: 

The Chief Medical Officer warned the growing resistance of infections to antibiotics was becoming as big a threat as terrorism

People could be dying of minor injuries in 20 years as antibiotics fail to cope with even minor infections.

Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies spelled out the “apocalyptic scenario” to MPs as she warned the growing resistance of infections to antibiotics was becoming as big a threat as terrorism.

The issue, she said, was now so serious it should be added to the Government’s national risk register of civil emergencies.

And there was a risk that within just 20 years people going for simple operations would die of routine infections because we have “run out of antibiotics that work”.

Prof Davies added: “We need to get our act together.”

Hospital superbugs like MRSA were already resistant to antibiotics, she said.

There were also fears over the drugs used to treat ­tuberculosis with more than 9,000 cases in Britain last year – the highest for 30 years. Globally, nine million have TB.

Prof Davies told the Commons Science and Technology Committee that a “number” of antibiotics were already useless as ­infections had evolved to beat them

She said: “There are few public health issues of potentially greater importance for society than antibiotic resistance.

"It means we are at increasing risk of developing infections that cannot be treated – but resistance can be managed.

“Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at a rate that is alarming and irreversible, similar to global warming.

“I urge patients and prescribers to think about the drugs they are requesting and dispensing.

“Bacteria are adapting to survive the effects of antibiotics, ­ultimately becoming resistant so they no longer work.

"The more you use an antibiotic, the more bacteria become resistant to it.”

Up to 25,000 people die every year in EU countries from antibiotic-resistant infections, according to the World Health Organisation.

Its head, Dr Margaret Chan warned six months ago that we faced the “end of modern ­medicine as we know it” because of the crisis in antibiotics.

The Health Protection Agency said one problem was that fewer new antibiotics were being developed as pharmaceutical companies had found easier ways to make money.

(I cant help but smile when I saw the photo above of Prof Davies and it says at the bottom of the original photo of her, 

"Warning: Professor Dame Sally Davies")

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