Royal Society: Hospitals 'losing fight against superbugs'
- From: Pat Gardiner <pat.gardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:34:54 +0100
Pat's Note:
This report in the Daily Telegraph is entirely consistent with, and
is predicted by, the "Gardiner Hypothesis."
Details of the "Gardiner Hypothesis" and its development over the past
decade, can be found on this newsgroup - uk.business.agriculture -
fully searchable through Google Groups.
However the problems outlined by the Royal Society will solve
themselves.
Following international prosecutions, Britain will not be allowed free
reign ever again in respect of antibiotics.
We won't have the money for independant research and can buy the new
antibiotics from the United States.
British veterinarians will of course be banned from their use without
appropriate supervision.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2275931/Hospitals-'losing-fight-against-superbugs'.html
Hospitals 'losing fight against superbugs'
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:58AM BST 10/07/2008
Britain's hospitals are losing the fight against superbugs, a leading
scientific organisation will warn.
The Royal Society will say that we are heading towards a
"pre-antibiotic" era with no effective treatment for some infections.
The Society claims that not enough is being done to develop new
antibiotics and other ways to tackle infection.
Instead, too much policy is focused on controlling disease and
reducing the number of antibiotics taken, a report released by the
Society warns.
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Infections such as MRSA are difficult to treat because they have
developed a resistance to antibiotics.
Sir David Read, the society's vice president, said: "Much of the
debate on superbugs has focussed on cleaning hospitals. This is
important, but it will not deal with the fact that MRSA and other
infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines we have come to
rely on to treat them.
"We must make sure that the investment is in place to deliver the next
generation of antibiotics to tackle future outbreaks of infection."
The Society calls for extra research into new ways of fighting
infection and catching it early.
The report warns that drugs companies are reluctant to invest in any
improved treatments because they do not make as much money as other
therapies.
It calls for pricing to be changed to reflect the fact that
developments in the fight against superbugs are "life saving".
The report, 'Innovative mechanisms for tackling antibacterial
resistance', is based on an international symposium the Royal Society
held earlier this year on superbugs.
It warns that "an increasing number of disease causing bacteria are
becoming resistant to available drugs and, for some pathogens, we are
in danger of returning to a 'pre-antibiotic era', with bacterial
diseases becoming more difficult and expensive to treat."
More than 8,000 deaths in England were linked to hospital superbugs
last year.
Professor Richard Moxon, head of the department of paediatrics at the
University of Oxford who was among the delegates at the symposium,
said doctors are becoming increasingly alarmed by the number of
multiply resistant organisms.
He said: "In some cases microbes, like TB for example, are going to be
resistant to all the treatments available and it is no longer going to
be possible to treat patients with antibacterial drugs."
Other recommendations in the report include the establishment of
centres of excellence for antibacterial therapies.
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Pat Gardiner
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