Bacteria resistant to antibiotics!
The World Health Organization (WHO) and US medical experts recently warned that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases. The experts attending the Inter-science Conference on Anti-microbial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) called for an urgent and coordinated world-wide response to the potential crisis.
In our country, it has also been seen that many antibiotics are getting inactive or less active against certain types of bacteria.
In this situation, a coordinated action-research programme should be undertaken to get the world free of the risk of facing a return to the age when there was no reliable drug for treating infectious diseases.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. In my opinion, the rich countries of the world including the United States should sanction special funds for conducting a coordinated research on antibiotics and to develop their new generations.