Antimicrobial Resistance

Drug Resistance Threatens to Reverse Medical Progress

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 12th, 2000

Increasing levels of drug resistance are threatening to erode the medical advances of recent decades, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"We currently have effective medicines to cure almost every major infectious disease," said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general of WHO. "But we risk losing these valuable drugs - and our opportunity to eventually control many infectious diseases - because of increasing antimicrobial resistance."

WHO sounded this alarm with the release of its annual Report on Infectious Diseases, titled "Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance." The report is the first of its kind to present...

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