WHO is warning on antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance is everyone's problem

Antibiotic resistance is everyone's problem Source: AAP

The rise of superbugs, stoked by misuse of antibiotics and poor hospital hygiene, is enabling long-treatable diseases to once again become killers.


A study by the World Health Organization of antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria becomes immune to the drugs that treat them - describes the problem as a global emergency.

Tú Trinh converses with Dr. Tuan Nguyen, an internationally recognised expert in the epidemiology and genetics of osteoporosis, from Garvan Institute, Sydney Australia, on this topic.






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