UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Wednesday launched a global effort to fight so-called super-bugs that resist antibiotics, warning of a mounting death toll without more research. “Some scientists call it a slow-motion tsunami,” Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, told a first-of-a-kind UN meeting on the problem. The statement also called on each country to come up with its own national action plan on super-bugs within the next year. Already some 230,000 newborns die each year from infections that cannot be treated with antibiotics, according to UN estimates. Like with human health, antibiotics should not be automatic,” she said.

Source: Manila Times September 21, 2016 21:45 UTC