mutating microbes - the end of antibiotics?

[Skomand]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-0...l-experts.html
A world without antibiotics? The risk is real, experts say
by Mariette Le Roux

Humans face the very real risk of a future without antibiotics, a world of plummeting life expectancy where people die from diseases easily treatable today, scientists say.

Experts tracking the rise of drug resistance say years of health gains could be rolled back by mutating microbes that make illnesses more difficult and expensive to cure and carry a higher risk of death.

Some say the threat to wellbeing is on the scale of global warming or terrorism—yet resistance is being allowed to spread through an entirely preventable means— improper use of antibiotics. .......................................

[cally]

The misuse of antibiotics is a major problem. I went to a diabetes conference which stressed the importance of correct dosage intake and I think there should be more awareness in relation to antibiotic treatment and prescription especially in developing countries. an example is the spread of multidrug resistant tuberculosis