​According to WHO (World Health Organization) Antibiotic resistance is rising dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. New resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases. A growing list of infections – such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning, gonorrhoea, and foodborne diseases – are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics become less effective.
 
Where antibiotics can be bought for human or animal use without a prescription, the emergence and spread of resistance is made worse. Similarly, in countries without standard treatment guidelines, antibiotics are often over-prescribed by health workers and veterinarians and over-used by the public.
 
Without urgent action, we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries can once again kill.

For more information on the risk of antibiotics resistance please visit WHO  or Antibiotic Guardian