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Euroviews. To safeguard modern medicine, we must tackle antimicrobial resistance before it’s too late

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Everyone knows about penicillin. It is one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world. And herein lies the problem. Penicillin was the first antibiotic, discovered in 1928.

It revolutionised healthcare. No longer did patients have to die or have their limbs amputated because of minor bacterial infections.

Millions of lives have been saved, and dozens of other antibiotic medicines have been developed since. But we are now at a turning point.

These “minor” infections are becoming life-threatening again. Many infections are becoming harder to treat, while medical procedures — such as surgery and chemotherapy — have become much riskier.

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