World medicine is still "helpless" with antibiotic resistance.

The current state of antibiotic resistance puts us in the same situation as 80 years ago.

In 2014, researchers and doctors achieved many successes in treating and preventing Ebola and other deadly viruses, but the fight against other diseases caused by bacteria suffered many failures due to antibiotic resistance.

Many antibiotics are no longer effective in fighting diseases (illustrative photo, Internet source)

Over the past year, scientists have been trying to find treatments and vaccines for Ebola. Several vaccines are in clinical trials and are expected to be available in early 2015.

Meanwhile, the fight against malaria achieved many successes in 2014 with the number of new cases decreasing by 47% compared to 2000. Research on the development of a vaccine to prevent dengue fever has also achieved many results. In July 2014, the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur announced that clinical trials underway in Asia will be the final step before the vaccine is launched on the market in the near future.

However, antibiotic treatment for some diseases is very difficult. In April 2014, the World Health Organization warned that the world is entering a “post-antibiotic phase,” meaning that diseases caused by bacteria are becoming more difficult to treat. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the US alone, 23,000 deaths have occurred due to antibiotics becoming ineffective. Dr. Trish Perl, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said: “Suddenly we realize that the current antibiotic resistance situation puts us in the same situation as 80 years ago when antibiotics were not available. Many antibiotics have become ineffective.”

The World Health Organization is calling on doctors to build a data system to clearly indicate which antibiotics can kill bacteria and avoid prescribing antibiotics that are no longer effective./.

According to VOV