This is the World Health Organization (WHO) website and it
describes the current antimicrobial resistance problem that is facing the
world. It talks specifically about what antimicrobial resistance is, some of
the current illnesses that are antimicrobial resistant, what the effects of
this are and how they are working to counteract this. What this expands upon is
the fact that if antibiotics don’t work it will cause people to be in the
hospital longer, which can lead to more suffering and higher bills and could
potentially put us back in the pre-antibiotic era. This can also further
complicate other areas where the medical community has made advances such as
organ transplants, major surgeries and chemotherapy, making it so these are not
as safe to perform. Another unsettling thought is how this can cause a problem
in controlling disease since people will be sick longer allowing for it to
spread more and with globalization many of these strands that are antibiotic
resistant can be spread to other places. This article matches chapter 10 by
saying that while this is a natural occurring phenomenon there are some human
actions that cause the increase of these resistant strands. Two of these
actions are using antibiotics in animals to prevent them from getting sick and
losing animals to sell, and the misuse of antibiotics by them being prescribed
to patients who don’t need it. It seems this is a very serious problem that
definitely needs to be looked into. The WHO recognizes that this is not one
single item that needs to be fixed but has multiple causes and is trying to
foster collaboration. It does seem to be lacking any concrete ideas of what
people are doing to try and solve this problem, which is disturbing and appears
we desperately need these ideas as more and more diseases are becoming
resistant.
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