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The councilman of Health of the Municipality of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, has been reported that the city council has published 2,500 booklets containing information on the occasion of the celebration of World Health Day.
Lopez Moya explained that the theme this year is to combat antimicrobial resistance by making appropriate use of them.
This publication will be distributed in health centers of Lorca, and later in the Health Fair to be developed during the 27th and 28th April.
Antonia Lopez has indicated that antimicrobial resistance is the phenomenon by which an organism ceases to be affected by an antibiotic that previously was sensitive.
Resistant microorganisms (including bacteria, viruses and parasites) are immune to the effects of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, antivirals and antimalarial drugs, so that standard treatments become ineffective and infections persist and can be transmitted others.
The resistance is a consequence of antimicrobial use, particularly of their abuse, and the organism arises by mutation or acquisition of resistance genes.
This incidence is still a matter of global concern since infections with resistant organisms do not respond to standard treatments, which prolongs the duration of the disease and increases the risk of death.
This also threatens the control of infectious diseases, and reduces the effectiveness of treatment, so patients remain infected for longer, a fact which in turn encourages the spread of resistant organisms to others.
Because of this, scientists from different classes have been warned that there is a risk that many infectious diseases will become untreatable, which could derail what has been achieved to meet the Millennium Development Goals related to health 2015.
Antimicrobial resistance expensive medical care, as infections unresponsive to first-line drugs.
Thus we must resort to more expensive products.
The extension of the disease and treatment, often in hospitals, it also increases health care costs and economic burden on families and society.
HIV resistance to antiretroviral drugs is a cause for growing concern.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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