Impose limit of less than nine antibiotic doses per person a year to help prevent superbugs, say experts Paper in the journal Science says urgent action must be taken to reduce the rise in deadly drug-resistant bacteria
Antibiotics should be limited to an average of less than nine daily doses a year per person in a bid to prevent the rise of untreatable superbugs, global health experts have warned.
Writing in the prestigious journal Science, they called on world leaders gathering for a special United Nations meeting on the issue next month to take decision action to reduce antimicrobial resistance.
This threatens to send medicine back to the days before the discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, when people could die from a simple scratch in the garden.
