When Bacteria Can No Longer Be Stopped

Fight Fear With Science

DAVID GILBERT, PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER
Government Needs to Aid Industry Research

BRAD SPELLBERG, LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Mandatory Limits on Farm Use Are Needed

LOUISE SLAUGHTER, MEMBER OF CONGRESS
Uses for Meat Production Are a Minor Problem

LIZ WAGSTROM, NATIONAL PORK PRODUCERS COUNCIL
Develop Viruses to Fight Resistant Bacteria

MATTI JALASVUORI, RESEARCHER
Adopt a National Plan, Like Europe’s Program

JOHN BARTLETT, JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SCHOOL
Challenge Is Doubly Great for the Developing World

RAMANAN LAXMINARAYAN, CENTER FOR DISEASE DYNAMICS, ECONOMICS & POLICY.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, via Associated PressThis lethal type of bacteria has become resistant to nearly all antibiotics.

The greatest medical miracle of the 20th centurymay become useless in the 21st century. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics, seen almost as soon as the medications were developed, has become a serious problem.

Government efforts to limit the extensive use of antibiotics by meat producers have been called inadequate. And hospitals have become a major source of antibiotic-resistant infections.

How we can avoid a future in which antibiotics are no longer useful?

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