Antibiotic resistance poses danger to humans against some bacterial infections. Strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics can be caused by improper use of antibiotics. Dr Donald Poretz, an infectious disease specialist, said “You end up with very resistant bacteria in the urinary tract. That’s only one example. Skin infections, lung infections, different bacteria causing these types of infections as they become more and more resistant, and then you get to more severe problem like tuberculosis in many parts of the world. People are given little of this and little of that to treat tuberculosis and tuberculosis germs develop resistance.” Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA is one of the most lethal infections born out of bacterial resistance which kills 19,000 people in the United States every year.
Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said “We speak of the pre-antibiotic and antibiotic eras, but if we don’t improve our response to the public health problem of antibiotic resistance, we may enter a post- antibiotic world in which we will have few or no clinical interventions for some infections.” Specialists are concerned that the more times the antibiotics are used, the less effective they become. The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics due to its mutation is a natural process. Experts say that the best solution is to educate patients and doctors to stop using antibiotics when they are not necessary.
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