Pollution from pharmaceutical manufacturing an unexpected source of superbugs
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 07:51
in Health & Medicine
The emergence of bacterial strains that are immune to last-line antibiotics poses an increasing threat to global health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that up to half a million people develop multidrug-resistant tuberculosis every year. And laboratory confirmed cases of particular resistant strains have increased 600-fold in the UK between 2003 and 2015.