When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too

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17. It needs to be bigger than that, I think. Here's a good article:

Sustainable Global System Might Avert Antibiotic Resistance

The entire structure of healthcare delivery for effective antibiotics, including research and development, distribution, and rational use, must be reengineered to avert the looming global threat of antibiotic resistance, according to a Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission report published online November 17 in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The report, authored by 26 experts from around the world, offers a comprehensive global overview of the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, leading causes and repercussions, and critical areas needing urgent action. Release of the report immediately precedes European Antibiotic Awareness Day and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, which begins November 18.

"The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world," lead author Professor Otto Cars, MD, from Uppsala University in Sweden and ReAct Action on Antibiotic Resistance, said in a news release. "Within just a few years, we might be faced with unimaginable setbacks, medically, socially, and economically, unless real and unprecedented global coordinated actions to improve surveillance and transform the way antibiotics are regulated and developed are taken immediately."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/814567