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The world is on the threshold of the crisis caused by the resistance of germs to antibiotics, said Friday at a conference in Copenhagen, the head of the world health organization Margaret Chan. About this newspaper The Telegraph.

Humanity, according to Chen, has to deal with such levels of antibiotic resistance that this situation may mean "the end of medicine as we know it." We are entering a "post-antibioticbuy era," said Chen. Every developed ever antibiotic can at any moment become useless.


According to Chen, the doctors are deprived of so-called "antibiotics first row". As a result, manipulation, former routine, be simply impossible. This equally concerns both the treatment of such diseases as tuberculosis or malaria, as well as banal surgical treatment of cuts.

Drugs that replace lost its activity antibiotics are becoming more expensive, and to achieve the same effect, we need longer treatment courses. "Such ordinary things as angina or a scraped knee and the child will become deadly," said Chen. Mortality of patients infected antibiotikoterapii strains of microorganisms in some cases increased by 50 percent. The use of minor antibiotikov often requires hospitalization, is associated with a toxic effect on the organism of the patient and always more expensive.

The conditions for this crisis, said the head of the who, has been formed for decades. The main reasons for it is the incorrect use of antimicrobial drugs, which are chosen correctly, taken too often or too long.

Who urges governments to support research ambitionierter. "The lack of funds doctors requires innovation," the report said.