{"id":45906,"date":"2021-04-17T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=45906"},"modified":"2021-04-19T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:16:32","slug":"alert-over-shortage-of-new-drugs-for-worlds-most-dangerous-bacteria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/chief-editors-choice\/alert-over-shortage-of-new-drugs-for-worlds-most-dangerous-bacteria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert over shortage of new drugs for \u2018world\u2019s most dangerous bacteria\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the \u201cworld\u2019s most dangerous bacteria\u201d, the UN health agency said on Thursday. The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) is delivered in a report showing that none of the 43 antibiotics in development today sufficiently addresses the growing threat posed by 13 priority drug-resistant bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Those most at risk are young children and those living in poverty, but antibiotic-resistant infections can affect anyone, said WHO partner AMR. According to WHO, three in 10 newborns who develop blood infections die, because the antibiotics that are used to treat sepsis are no longer effective. Bacterial pneumonia \u2013 another preventable illness which has developed resistance to available drugs \u2013 is also a major cause of childhood mortality among under-fives.<\/p>\n<p>WHO\u2019s annual Antibacterial Pipeline Report, notes that almost all antibiotics available today are variations of those discovered by the 1980s. We rely hugely on them in all areas of our lives, from having a tooth out at the dentist, to organ transplants and cancer chemotherapy. But after reviewing antibiotics that are in the clinical stages of testing, as well as those in development, the report highlighted a \u201cnear static pipeline\u201d of production, which WHO\u2019s Haileyesus Getahun likened to the \u201cAchilles heel\u201d of global health security.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few drugs have been given early-stage approval by regulators in recent years \u201cand most of these agents\u2026offer limited clinical benefit over existing treatments, WHO said, with the warning that the \u201crapid emergence of drug-resistance to these new agents\u201d was a certainty. This was despite the fact that \u201csome promising products\u201d were in different stages of development, as only a fraction of these will make it to market in a sector hampered by the small return on investment from successful antibiotic products, which has limited the interest of most large pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/04\/1089822\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the \u201cworld\u2019s most dangerous bacteria\u201d, the UN health agency said on&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,77],"tags":[12647,5647,149,3953,12648,383],"class_list":["post-45906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-weeks-highlights","tag-antibiotic","tag-bacteria","tag-drug","tag-new","tag-resistance","tag-un","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/tippa_sairaala.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45907,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45906\/revisions\/45907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}