Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.
Britain’s chief medical officer is warning that the world could find itself “in a health system not dissimilar to the early 19th century at some point” as more bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
Dame Sally Davies is calling for urgent action not only in the UK but around the world. She reported a worldwide increase in e coli and klebsiella, which causes pneumonia.
The bacteria is called “gram negative” bacteria which are found in the intestinal tract rather than on the skin. As many as 2,500 people died in the UK last year because of gram negative bacteria that could not be cured with antibiotics.
“Antimicrobial resistance poses a catastrophic threat,” Davies told the BBC. “If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics. And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.”
No new antibiotics have been discovered since 1987 and there are no new classes of antibiotics currently in the research and development departments of major drug companies. Drug companies know that antibiotics do not have a lifetime shelf life as bacteria become resistant and so they are slow to research because there are limited profits.
Wash your hands & be careful when/where you eat.