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Drug-resistant infections a global health emergency, says WHO

Published Wed, Sep 20, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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RESISTANCE to antibiotic drugs is a "global health emergency" that threatens the progress made by modern medicine, the head of the UN's health agency warned as a new report was published on Wednesday.

The report by the World Health Organization (WHO) found there is a lack of new treatments being developed to combat antibiotic-resistant infections, such as tuberculosis which kills around 250,000 people each year.

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