Antibiotic resistance means ‘everyone is at risk’
Gram-positive C. difficile bacteria from a stool sample.
Gerry Wright and Eric Brown say the world is finally waking up to the “worst public health threat of our times.”
“The antibiotics that we have come to take for granted are quickly losing their power to stop deadly diseases and infections,” they wrote in an op-ed published in the National Post May 4. “The end of antibiotics is right on our doorstep, and everyone is at risk.”
Wright and Brown go on to describe a world in which antibiotics don’t exist – and the infectious disease experts do not paint a pretty picture.
“We’d return to a time when a skin infection had a one in ten chance of causing death. When tuberculosis would again rage. When the very idea of a kidney transplant, a knee replacement, or beating cancer with chemotherapy would be unthinkable.”
