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British Prime Minister David Cameron has called on Wednesday for global action to fight against the threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs with Britain taking a lead role in finding ways to spur the development of new antibiotics.
Mr Cameron has warned against the severity of drug-resistant superbugs by indicating the risk posed by them to the medicine as they may send medicine back into the “dark ages”.
It means that the infections and injuries that were previously rendered as treatable could now end up killing the patients once again if appropriate steps will not be taken to respond to the real threat of drug-resistant bacteria.
The Prime Minister has announced to launch an independent review led by former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill to highlight the problems while identifying why so few new antibiotics are being currently developed to address this seriously growing issue.
Mr O’Neill will gather and unite experts from all over the world in the fields of science, finance, industry and global health; reflecting the global nature of the superbug threat.
Mr Cameron had discussed the problem privately with U.S. president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel during the G7 summit last month.
A devised experts’ panel will investigate why no new classes of antibiotics have introduced in the market for more than 25 years and present evidence at next year’s G7 summit in Germany.
Mr Cameron has claimed the situation is one of the biggest global challenges and said: “This is not some distant threat but something happening right now.
“If we fail we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again.
“That simply cannot be allowed to happen and I want to see a stronger, more coherent global response.”
The British government’s principal medical adviser and chief medical officer Sally Davies has said that at least 25,000 people die annually across Europe from infections which are drug-resistant.
Ms Sally has told adults had two kilogrammes of bacteria in their bodies, “but they can infect us if our immune systems are not so good”.
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