Antibiotic resistance: EU action needed • Table.Briefings

Death by tuberculosis, pneumonia, or typhoid fever? For most Europeans, this sounds like a horror story from the imperial era. But the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been on the rise for years and disregards national borders. A joint European approach is, therefore, an obvious response. There are plenty of potential starting points.

Just a few days ago, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) presented a recommendation on which antibiotics should be used exclusively in human medicine in the future. This is intended to ensure that sufficient effective antibiotics will still be available for humans in the future within the framework of the new EU veterinary medicines regulation.

Antibiotic resistance: EU action needed more than ever

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