Antibiotics 'losing effectiveness'
Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at a rate that is both alarming and irreversible, similar to global warming, experts have warned.
UK must 'develop new antibiotics'
Dr Paul Cosford, acting Chief Executive of Health Protection Agency, has told Daybreak that the UK must develop new antibiotics.
He said: "When a bug becomes resistent to an antibiotic, we need to use new antibiotics and there aren't that many antibiotics in the pipeline."
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