These bacteria can be resistant because the animal from which the food stems was treated. If we would go to a hospital and need some treatment because we had diarrhoea, the physician would be disarmed because the drug he wants to use on us, was already used on the animal. Every time a new antibiotic is out on the market, it costs huge amount of money. A good example is gonnhorea in sub-saharan Africa. But gonnhorea was a serious health problem, it was causing infertility in many women, and no-one bothered to treat it or change behaviour.
Governments didn t commit to programmes to get rid of the sexually transmitted disease.
No donor is willing to commit to that. So today the window of opportunity to treat gonnhorea successfully and inexpensively is almost closed. That s the important part of this report, it s really a wake-up call. We need not to just talk, we need action. Because we need action to actually contain the problem of resistance in the best way that we know, but we need also to encourage the development of new drugs, or alternatives to drugs, such as vaccines and other tools, in order that we can bridge the gap between new drugs arriving, which may be ten or twenty years, we need to be doing better with the drugs that we have available at the moment.