L.J. Devon ~ WHO Report Labels Antibiotic Resistance ‘Global Threat,’ Calls For Urgent Action

NaturalNews  May 7 2014

A new report issued by the World Health Organization denounces the current overuse of antibiotics and is saying that antibiotics now pose a “major global threat” to public health.

Calling for urgent action, WHO says that antibiotic resistance is occurring “in every region of the world.” Describing the current medical landscape as a “post-antibiotic era,” WHO is revealing that simple infections, once treatable, are now capable of taking lives en masse. After analyzing data from 114 countries, WHO has deemed that “devastating implications are imminent, unless “significant” and prompt action is taken. In utter hypocrisy, WHO is calling for the development of new antibiotics and new vaccines to overcome the resistant strains of bacteria.

“What we urgently need is a solid global plan of action which provides for the rational use of antibiotics,” the WHO report stated.

Current antibiotics unable to treat pneumonia, blood infections

The golden age of medical antibiotics is eroding. Overuse of antibiotics is now causing diseases such as pneumonia, blood infections and even diarrhea to return, stronger and more pervasive than ever, outsmarting key, crutch antibiotics relied on in the last generation. Continue reading