Are we postantibiotic apocalypse waiting for us?

Statistics in the United States are disturbing enough: two million people each year are infected with a bacterial infection that is difficult or impossible to cure with antibiotics.
More than 23,000 people die of such an infection. Doctors, who recently gathered in Berlin, warn that the situation is deteriorating.
Every time you use antibacterial soap or use antibiotics to fight infection, some bacteria survive. Medical officials at a conference in Berlin warn that these bacteria lead us to the postantibiotic apocalypse.
"We are talking about an increase in the number of superb bacteria, the death of modern medicine, post-antibiotic apocalypse. Why do I say this? Not only do we need antibiotics in everyday life because of bacterial infections, not naturally for viral infections, but in fact a large number of people are susceptible to infections in their treatments , cancer treatment or transplantation, there are also patients with diabetes who are more prone to infection, and we could lose the effectiveness of patient care, "said Sali Davies, a health official from England.
In the postantibiotic world, these experts predict that any invasive medical procedure will become much more dangerous, from complicated operations, to ordinary, minor procedures.
"Imagine routine surgery, cesarean surgery, hip replacement, they could become much more risky if we did not have effective antibiotics. Superb bacteria kill, and all of them are more," Davis said.
Therefore, these medical officials invite states not only to reduce the use of antibiotics, but to prepare for the worst by making national action plans ready for the day when antibiotics will no longer be effective.
"We need to see real work to ensure that we use antibiotics only if they are really needed. We need to think in the way that antibiotics get only those who are really needed, we recognize that in most of the poorest countries people do not have access to the same antibiotics as in rich countries and It kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, so we need to ensure that access and resources are better, "says Ed Wayting of the Wellcome Trust organization.
The problem and urgency that could have been heard at the conference was that antibiotics prevailed so much that they literally had everywhere.
"We need to understand how it works together, because you have the presence of antibiotics in the waste, especially in the natural environment, you have antibiotics that are used in the food chain and antibiotics that people use. We know that too much is bad, but we do not know how they work together and we need to understand it better, "Whiteing points out.
Researchers at the conference have discovered a new way to map the spread of bacteria resistant to drugs. They estimate that 700,000 people worldwide die each year from bacterial-resistant infections, and this number could increase to 10 million per year by 2050.