Health

India urgently needs a national policy paradigm to stop superbugs

There are no clear-cut policies or norms for effluents released by pharmaceutical industries.

How this bacteria resistant to all antibiotics killed US woman. She had picked it up from India

The superbug is likely to become more and more resistant.

Containing the spread of superbug infections, and preventing all opportunities for newer and more powerful species, is the need of the hour.

Antibiotic abuse and drug resistance is really just one symptom of a much larger problem.