Group Warns of Disease Mutations
From Times Wire Reports
Microbes that cause diseases ranging from sore throats and pneumonia to malaria and AIDS are mutating at an alarming rate around the globe into much more dangerous infections that fail to respond to drugs, the World Health Organization warned at a Washington news conference. If the current pattern continues, the world could be plunged back into the “pre-antibiotic era” when people commonly died from diseases that in modern times have been easily treated with antibiotics and other drugs, the WHO concluded.
