The Pharmaceutical Journal reports that a strain of Escherichia coli with immunity to last-resort antibiotics can be destroyed with a novel combination of three existing drugs, citing researchers at the University at Buffalo, New York.
It’s early days but this is important news.
Over-prescription and less new antibiotics from Big Pharma have signalled risks of returning to the dark ages before antibiotics.
Most people have a friend or family member who goes to a public hospital for a routine procedure and picks up a nasty infection – too many die from complications.
It’s far too easy to come up against the only recommended antibiotic, often with serious side effects.
I have a friend who’s developed a serious infection following a plate inserted in his leg – he’s been in hospital for three months having three hours of intrevenous antibiotics every day,
So how should governments intervene to ensure that there are more effective antibiotics when required?