An end to modern medicine?

According to a report in today's Daily Mail (UK), that's not my fear, that's the view of the WHO (World Health Organisation) Director General Margaret Chan.

She thinks the chances of changing this are dim as the production line of more effective drugs is ‘virtually dry’: "A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it....Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill....Some sophisticated interventions, like hip replacements, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants, would become far more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake.... Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe, and elsewhere in the world. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment and may require treatment in intensive care units"

What's the solution? PREVENTION!

Watch every slight cut and the first sneeze or sign of infection!

And I predict that traditional understandings of hygiene (e.g. Jewish and Hindu) will once again become accepted as keys to health.