Resistance to antibiotics threatens health

“The more you use an antibiotic, the more bacteria become resistant to it.” This was what England’s chief medical officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, said, urging patients and prescribers alike to think about the drugs they are requesting and prescribing. Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness “at a rate that is both alarming and irreversible,” she warned. Bacteria are adapting and finding ways to survive the effects of antibiotics, the BBC quoted Davies as saying. Ultimately bacteria become resistant so antibiotics no longer work – posing one of the greatest threats to health. Antibiotics, according to Davies, should not be used unnecessarily to treat mild infections because this only serves to create resistance.

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