The World Health Organization recently warned that common infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics and putting many more lives in danger, a trend one expert says is attributable in large part to government “chains” squashing incentives for drug makers to develop new antibiotics.
In it’s latest report, the WHO released data showing that common infections like E. coli and staph, which can turn into the deadly MRSA infection, are far tougher to conquer with traditional antibiotics than in the past. E. coli was resistant to traditional antibiotics in 48 percent of the samples taken in the western hemisphere. The numbers are higher everywhere else in the world and shoot as high as 82 percent in Europe.
Staph infections were even harder to kill, with 90 percent of the samples in the Americas surviving antibiotic treatment. The number is 80 percent in Afr60 percent in Europe and
