“In the 1980s pharmaceutical manufacturers, thinking infectious diseases were essentially conquered, cut back severely on searching for additional antibiotics” (Levy). Unknowingly, people all over the world are promoting the reproduction and spread of multiple-drug resistant bacteria and viruses. Every continent in the world is connected by easily accessible travel which makes infection effortless. There are numerous amounts of methods can slow down this process and keep people healthy. If the problem is ignored any longer, then another plague will devastate many nations. The threat of multi-drug resistant pathogens endangers the entire world population because anyone can be infected, many hospitals cannot provide quality care, treatment is expensive, and many people are uninformed.
The prevalence of drug resistant pathogens around the world can be …show more content…
About 80 percent of doctors in China said that they had prescribed an antibiotic to someone without knowing what type it was (Tang, Song, Li, Kong, Sun, and Xu). These doctors are promoting the spread of resistant pathogens because they are allowing them to be exposed to an antibiotic that was not necessary. In China, doctors have control over what drugs they purchase and the amounts they prescribed to their patients which is a major cause for the overuse of antibiotics. According to Yang Zhiyin of the Chinese Medical Association, at least 80,000 people have died from drug reactions because of overuse or misuse of antibiotics (Tang, Song, Li, Kong, Sun, and Xu). People are dying because of the prescriptions that trusted medical personnel are giving them while possibly spread resistant pathogens. All of these facts explain why China uses over half of the world’s total antibiotics. If this problem is not solved, the large population of China will suffer while taking down the rest of the world with
The prevalence of drug resistant pathogens around the world can be …show more content…
About 80 percent of doctors in China said that they had prescribed an antibiotic to someone without knowing what type it was (Tang, Song, Li, Kong, Sun, and Xu). These doctors are promoting the spread of resistant pathogens because they are allowing them to be exposed to an antibiotic that was not necessary. In China, doctors have control over what drugs they purchase and the amounts they prescribed to their patients which is a major cause for the overuse of antibiotics. According to Yang Zhiyin of the Chinese Medical Association, at least 80,000 people have died from drug reactions because of overuse or misuse of antibiotics (Tang, Song, Li, Kong, Sun, and Xu). People are dying because of the prescriptions that trusted medical personnel are giving them while possibly spread resistant pathogens. All of these facts explain why China uses over half of the world’s total antibiotics. If this problem is not solved, the large population of China will suffer while taking down the rest of the world with