Researchers reported that more than 70 percent of Vietnamese patients, for example, received inadequate doses of antibiotics to cure serious infections. In this modern travel and communication age where people and diseases can spread around the world in 24 hours, diseases that become resistant to treatment in one nation today can turn up in any number of other nations tomorrow. Improper use of antibiotics and other man-made disease remedies worldwide have accelerated the mutation process and have exponentially increased the likelihood of a medical armageddon. The problem becomes more serious when you include the widespread use of antibiotics in livestock. Today, you can't touch it anywhere in the world with those drugs,' Heymann said.
Nobody counts deaths from drug-resistant infections.
The CDC says 88,000 Americans a year die of infections they catch in the hospital, and many are resistant to at least one antibiotic, complicating treatment attempts. Although it is becoming common knowledge that misuse of antibiotics in people and animals may lead to world-wide epidemics of incurable diseases that may potentially kill millions of people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has thus far avoided taking any action due to intense lobbying from powerful pharmaceutical and meat production interests.