In a world awash in antibiotics, dangerous infections are getting even harder to fight.
The problem? Bacteria are outsmarting the drugs meant to wipe them out at a faster pace than new antibiotics can be discovered and produced.
To address the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance, global health officials on Monday listed a dozen antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens” that pose the greatest threats to human health.
The first-of-its-kind list is meant to steer public and private research dollars toward developing new antibiotics for these particular families of bacteria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The announcement is also designed to push public agencies to support more research by pharmaceutical companies, which currently lack financial incentives to develop new drugs aimed at rare, but deadly, superbugs. Read more…
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