(by Massimiliano D'Elia) As antibiotics are used as aspirin, we are accustomed to taking them to every disease signal to be immediately active and fit. Immune defenses need to reinforce themselves by fighting bacteria and viruses. After days of illness and after the body has fought alone and failed to recover, then antibiotics are called for. Just watch the television series made for the little ones: "We're done so" telling the human body in a really simple and effective way. The speed of our society makes us superficial to the health of ourselves. Then when you become seriously ill we hear it: "It has neglected the symptoms and unfortunately the evil is degenerate, there is nothing left to do." The speed that wound us in the vortex, making us overlook affections and our health now seems to be no longer there. Left in nothing. In the face of death, remorse: I could do, I could say etc. When we say to our friends that we are seriously ill, they get sick for a thousandth of a second, just the time that the whirlpool does not suck them in the speed of life. Death stops everything. So let us see the alarm launched by the European Commissioners for Health and Research.
Antibiotic resistance is a "global threat" that causes "25 thousand deaths a year, determines health costs and losses of productivity of 1,5 billion euros" and "by 2050 it could kill one person every three seconds" becoming "A more common cause of death than cancer". This is what EU commissioners for health and research, Vytenis Andriukaitis and Carlos Moedas say, on the tenth anniversary of the European Antibiotics Day. The commissioners recalled the progress made by the EU action plan to combat the phenomenon, with guidelines on the prudent use of antimicrobials in human medicine, the joint initiative on health care-associated infections involving 28 countries, and the construction by 3 European agencies (Ecdc, Efsa and Ema) of indicators so that the EU and Member States can measure progress and shortcomings in the fight against antibiotic resistance.