Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose ‘apocalyptic’ threat, top expert says Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies tells MPs issue should be added to national risk register of civil emergencies
Via: Guardian: Britain’s most senior medical adviser has warned MPs that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics was so serious that […]
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