Drug-Resistant Disease on the Rise Globally

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The World Health Organization, governments and nonprofit groups may actually be driving drug resistance and endangering lives by failing to pay enough attention to the dangers of drug-resistant diseases.

Millions of children around the world die every year from drug-resistant strains of malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other diseases.  "Superbugs" such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) now cause more than 50 percent of staph infections in U.S. hospitals.

If a drug treatment leaves even one microbe alive, whatever genetic attributes helped it survive will be multiplied in the next generation.

Reuters reports:

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