Why antibiotics are losing the war against bacteria

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Why antibiotics are losing the war against bacteria

As bacteria become ever more resistant to drugs, world health experts fear a future without antibiotics

On March 14 this year Margaret Chan stood up in a conference hall in Copenhagen and warned that life as we know it may be about to come to an end.

Chan, 55, is the Chinese-born director-general of the World Health Organization; the subject of her speech was the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, the infection-battling drugs that have underpinned every aspect of medicine since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. Read article

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