World Health Day 2011: Combat drug resistance
April 8, 2011
When the first antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, they were hailed as “wonder drugsâ€, the miracles of modern medicine. And rightly so. Widespread infections that killed many millions of people every year could now be cured. Major diseases, like syphilis, gonorrhoea, leprosy, and tuberculosis, lost much of their sting. The risk of death from something so common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee virtually vanished. (WHO)
