Increase of antibiotic resistance - Antibiotic Awareness Week highlights the risks

Bern, 14. The global fight against antibiotic resistance is ramping up. The World Health Organization has launched an Antibiotic Awareness Week, which will be running for the first time in Switzerland from 13 to 19 November 2017. The professional world and wider public especially are to better communicate and understand that the severe consequences of antibiotic resistance are on the rise. Humans, animals, agriculture and the environment are affected in equal measure. Numerous associations and organisations across Switzer-land are supporting the Awareness Week with their own activities and campaigns. The number of cases of antibiotic resistance is increasing globally and with it the risk that infectious diseases will now be very difficult or impossible to treat, meaning hu-mans and animals will die.