Superbugs warning 警告：对抗“超级细菌”刻不容缓

一项由英国政府委托调研的报告结果显示，如果人们再不行动起来对抗“超级病菌”的话，那么到 2050 年，平均每三秒钟，超级病菌就会夺走一个人的生命。此报告建议减少各类抗生素的使用。以下是 Fergus Walsh 的报道。

In the two years this review has taken, the team involved estimates around a million people worldwide have died from drug-resistant infections but it warns this could rise to ten million people a year – more than die from cancer – unless the world tackles the superbug crisis.
在实施该调查的两年来，该小组评估了世界范围内大约一百万死于耐药性感染的人，而且该调查警告，这个数字可能会增至每年一千万——比每年死于癌症的人还要多——除非我们能解决超级细菌危机。

The report calls for a global public awareness campaign so that patients do not demand antibiotics when there's no need.
研究人员希望该报告能引起一个全球公众意识运动，这样在没有必要使用抗生素时病人们就不会再使用抗生素。

It also wants a major reduction in antibiotic use in farm animals. New antimicrobials are urgently required and it says there should be big financial incentives for companies that develop effective drugs.
该报告还想减少农场动物的抗生素使用。新的抗菌剂需求迫切，并且应给予研发有效药物的公司更大的金融刺激。

Antibiotics are perhaps the most precious medicines we have. If they're to remain effective it will require international coordination to conserve their use and to prevent the spread of infections that fuel the rise of superbugs.