Homeland Preparedness News: Experts, lawmakers call for improved drug pipeline to treat superbugs
“Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) microorganisms, also known as superbugs, increasingly threaten every person on Earth, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and national experts. … [T]here’s only a certain amount of antibiotics in the pipeline, which needs to increase alongside the growing list of ever-changing infections and diseases, but which currently isn’t keeping pace, experts say…” (Riley, 10/24).