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    Sorry, hate to bug you

    Feb 23, 2020 3 minutes
    by Nicky Pellegrino

    Antibiotic resistance is hardly news. We’ve known for years that some common pathogens are evolving so the drugs we once relied on are no longer effective against them. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned this is a global health emergency that threatens to return us to a time when people feared everyday infections and risked their lives having minor surgery.

    It would be good to think someone is in charge of fixing this

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