The first patient with pneumonia resistant to all antibiotics was recorded in SA last year, raising the ‘terrifying’ possibility of a ‘post-antibiotic era’, writes [s]Health-e[/s]. Reporting on the case, Precious Matsoso, SA’s director general of Health, described the emergence of super-bugs immune to medicines as ‘worse than Aids’. A [b]Ministerial Advisory Committee[/b], including representatives from the public and private sector, is to be established soon to help the department to deal with drug-resistance, focusing on TB, HIV and malaria medicine.
[link url=http://www.health-e.org.za/2014/04/08/pneumonia-super-bug-causes-shivers-sa]Full Health-e report[/link]