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About the Book Antibiotic resistance, now widened to be called antimicrobial resistance, is the world’s greatest public health risk and threat. We are now so used to using antibiotics that it is almost unthinkable what would happen to our state of health if there were none available. Or if the antibiotics don’t work anymore. Health leaders are sounding the alarm bell. The Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom has warned of a looming “catastrophe” so widespread that we would be back to a pre-antibiotic era when many diseases could not be treated. The World Health Organisation’s then Director General has said the world is heading towards a post-antibiotics era in which common infections such as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. It may even bring the end of modern medicine. And heads of states and governments in 2016 adopted a landmark Political Declaration recognising that antibiotic resistance is the “greatest and most urgent global risk”. This book is a collection of articles written over two decades, tracing the antimicrobial resistance problem as it evolved through the years into a full blown crisis. It also contains the author’s speaking notes at the UN General Assembly summit-level special event on AMR. It provides news and opinions in popular language on various aspects of AMR, as the problem emerged and then developed into the present day public health catastrophe. Contents INTRODUCTION I Overview II Dangers of Modern Animal Farm and Antibiotic Resistance III Revamp Needed of Livestock IV The Dangers of Antibiotics in Animal Feed V “Super Germs” Causing Global Health Crisis VI The Threat of New Diseases VII Diseases Emerge as Germs Break “Species Barriers” VIII Scientists Warn of Genetic Engineering Link to Antibiotic Resistance IX Irrational Drug Use Causing Rise of Anti-Microbial Resistance X World Health Assembly Reviews World’s Health Problems XI Alert on New Untreatable Diseases XII New Super-Bugs a Threat to Human Life XIII Worrisome Rise of Super Malaria XIV Drug Resistance Now a “Catastrophe” XV When Drugs Don’t Work Anymore XVI WHO Sounds Alarm Bell on Antibiotic Resistance XVII State of the World’s Health XVIII Action to Use Medicines Wisely XIX Antibiotic Resistance: A Global Plan at Last XX Super Drug-Resistant Gene Raises New Health Alarm XXI World Leaders Pledge Action to Control Superbugs XXII Action Needed to Avoid the End of Modern Medicine XXIII Super Bugs are Super Dangerous PRICE POSTAGE Malaysia RM14.00 RM2.00 Developing countries US$8.00 US$4.00 (air) Others US$10.00 US$5.00 (air) (For orders of more than 3 copies, please write in for reduced postal rate) How to Order the Book Visit our TWN Online Bookshop or contact Third World Network at 131 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Penang, Malaysia. Tel: 604-2266159 Fax: 604-2264505 Email for further information.
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