The World Health Organization (WHO) is marshaling resources to fight the growing threat of antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance. Earlier this week, member states of the United Nations gave unanimous support to a plan to fight what the WHO calls a "serious threat to global public health." The plan's objectives include better control over the use of existing antibiotics, tracking how resistance is developing and supporting investment into new drugs. Countries are expected to have national action plans addressing these points in place by 2017.
"We may be a bit late," Sally Davies, the UK's chief medical officer and the leader of the WHO's discussion of the plan, told The New York Times. "If you look at the trajectories of rising...
WHO outlines global plan to tackle growing resistance to antibiotics
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