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Before
antibiotics
were discovered, sunlight was part of the standard treatment for tuberculosis (TB).
A study showed that TB patients recovered at a faster rate when given vitamin D alongside
antibiotics.
This conclusion would most likely be valid, because the use of
antibiotics
before 1930 – just two years after Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and years before it was fully workable as a cure – was rare and mostly inadvertent.
Some of these policies already exist; some have to be crafted – the
antibiotics
of our time.
Advances in treating gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection that has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics, are also worthy of mention.
By preventing infections, vaccines also prevent overuse of antibiotics, thereby slowing down the development of drug resistance.
Antibiotics
That WorkMEXICO CITY – From the discovery of penicillin in 1928 to the introduction of the last of the main groups of
antibiotics
in the 1960s, humanity’s capacity to fight pathogenic bacteria has been transformative.
But, over time, the number of
antibiotics
to which bacteria are susceptible has been dwindling, and some pathogens have become resistant to most or all existing drugs.
Moreover, most
antibiotics
are natural products of soil bacteria, in which antibiotic resistance can occur naturally.
When human-made
antibiotics
were introduced on a massive scale, the bacteria with resistance became the most prevalent.
Today, humans release about 100,000 tons of
antibiotics
per year.
If those
antibiotics
were being used properly and saving lives, a reasonable cost-benefit analysis might be possible.
If this abuse of
antibiotics
does not end, we will soon find ourselves without drugs to treat bacterial infections effectively.
What is really needed is an immediate worldwide ban on the agricultural use of
antibiotics.
Moreover, guidelines for the clinical use of antibiotics, which the medical community now follows as closely as those concerning how to pick a necktie, must be reviewed and strongly enforced.
These two measures alone – both of which could be enacted by governmental regulatory agencies – would reduce the use of
antibiotics
by nearly 80%, slowing the rise of antibiotic resistance substantially.
Of course, getting governments to implement such measures will not be easy, because they run counter to powerful economic interests, the most obvious being the pharmaceutical industry, which sells $40 billion worth of
antibiotics
each year.
While Big Pharma has a strong interest in continued antibiotic abuse, it has little interest in developing new
antibiotics
to tackle drug-resistant bacteria.
So Big Pharma is seeking “incentives” to pursue research and development of new antibiotics, such as extended patents or tax breaks; the alternative would be to charge astronomical prices for new drugs.
NANBU would grant points to companies with vigorous research programs or with new
antibiotics
in the development pipeline.
Companies that do not manufacture or sell
antibiotics
for agricultural purposes, or that refuse to promote the use of
antibiotics
for diseases that do not require such drugs, would gain points as well.
Those that engaged in the opposite behaviors – selling
antibiotics
as livestock “growth promoters” or actively encouraging physicians to prescribe the drugs – would lose points.
Over time,
antibiotics
could become more profitable again, as engaged companies sell more of their other drugs and the need for costly incentives diminishes.
The world must think and act together to preserve the huge gains to human health and wellbeing that
antibiotics
have enabled.
Moreover, health care for the elderly in the 1950’s consisted mainly of aspirin, antibiotics, and fluids, with an iron lung in emergencies.
Developing new
antibiotics
and putting in place methods to extend the lifespans of existing medications will help maintain a supply of effective treatments.
And because the use (or overuse) of
antibiotics
is what leads to drug resistance, the pressure on the pipeline of effective treatments will be alleviated.
Vaccines also have an important role to play in protecting livestock and fish from infections, optimizing the application of
antibiotics
in agriculture – where their overuse is an important cause of growing resistance.
But it also entails developing new vaccines, which, in the short-term, could be kick-started by a $2 billion Global Innovation Fund for early-stage research in vaccines and other viable alternatives to
antibiotics.
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