(NaturalNews) The journal Lancet Infectious Diseases recently published a sobering piece about how antibiotics are becoming wholly ineffective as treatments for infection. According to the report,
even the most powerful antibiotics available are largely inadequate at
tackling the emerging forms of new and powerful "super" bacteria.

Antibiotic overuse has become a pandemic problem. They are used in animal feed to
make animals grow more quickly and they are handed out like candy by
many doctors to people with almost any ailment. And they are simply not
working anymore to fight infection.

Published by Professor Tim Walsh and his colleagues, the paper explains how a new
gene called NDM 1 is changing the way infectious bacteria survive. The NDM 1 gene passes among bacteria like E. Coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and makes them resistant to antibiotics. Even carbapenems, the most powerful antibiotics available, are no match for these new bacteria.

"This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that
have activity against NDM 1-producing enterobacteriaceae. We have a
bleak window of maybe ten years where we are going to have to use the
antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that
we have nothing to treat these infections with," explained Walsh in a recent Guardian piece.

According to Dr. Livermore, director of the antibiotic resistance monitoring and reference laboratory at the U.K. Health Protection Agency, the entirety of modern medicine could collapse as a result of antibiotics becoming useless.

"A lot of modern medicine would become impossible if we lost our ability to treat infections," he emphasized.

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