This post is the fifth and final in a series on Drug Resistant Superbugs. Yesterday, 24 March 2014, was World Tuberculosis Day. For most people in the developed world, tuberculosis (TB) is a thing of the past. But for many people around the world, TB remains a very real threat. Every year, three million people […]
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This post is the second in a series on Drug Resistant Superbugs. Medicine is losing the capacity to treat infections that rely on antimicrobial drugs. Some of these infections cause serious diseases, such as gonorrhoea, tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. For the Global Risk Report on August 8th, 2013, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, World Health Organization (WHO), addressed […]
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This post is a first in a series on Drug Resistant Superbugs. Drug resistance is often called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when a treatment loses its power to stop an infection or a disease caused by organisms or microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and some parasites. When organisms fight off or become “resistant” to […]
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