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Scientists have alerted that many common infections such as gonorrhea, malaria, tuberculosis, Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV), Influenza A virus, Staphylococcus aureus are becoming un-treatable with antibiotics.
They have also said that unless new drugs are found for common infections, the bugs resistant to antibiotics will kill more than cancer and 10 million people a year could die by 2050.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that antimicrobial resistance threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi which it says are an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society.
According to the WHO, patients with infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria are generally at an increased risk of worse clinical outcomes and death, and consume more health-care resources than patients infected with the same bacteria that are not resistant.
The WHO, however, said people can help tackle resistance by: hand washing, and avoiding close contact with sick people to prevent transmission of bacterial and viral infections such as influenza or rotavirus, and using condoms to prevent the transmission of sexually-transmitted infections.
Also, Nigeria on Sunday joined 154 other countries to mark the beginning of the largest and fastest globally coordinated rollout of a vaccine into routine immunisation programme in history.
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