WHO warning: Farewell to centuries of medical progress
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a dire warning of a threat that could reverse more than a century of medical progress: antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infections.
In an urgent appeal to world leaders meeting next week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, WHO stressed the need for strong, coordinated action to combat this growing global crisis.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned at the agency’s weekly press conference that antimicrobial resistance, mainly caused by the misuse and overuse of medicines, could take us back to the pre-antibiotic era.
“Antimicrobial resistance threatens to reverse a century of medical progress and may make treatable infections a death sentence,” Tedros said.
(MH with MaSi/Source: WHO/Photo: Talha Hassan/Unsplash)