Wednesday, March 02, 2005
FIVE YEARS OF THE SUPERBUG
are coming in 2010 according to this Telegraph article linked at Crux:
Drugs to combat superbugs 'will soon be useless'
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
(Filed: 01/03/2005)
The world may run out of effective antibiotics by the end of this decade and faces a gap of at least five years before new drugs can be developed to combat superbugs, according to one of the world’s most influential scientists.
The warning that the age of infectious disease control is almost over has come from Prof George Poste, Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and an advisor to the US president.
“Frankly, most governments are asleep at the switch,” said Prof Poste. He predicts that from 2010 to 2015 will be a “window of vulnerability” when the toll of the superbug will reach its peak as a result of antibiotic resistance.
