{"id":526,"date":"2014-05-12T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=526"},"modified":"2014-05-12T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:46:03","slug":"careless-use-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Careless use of a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Careless doctors writing prescriptions and careless patients using antibiotics have created a massive new vulnerability in our health care.\u00a0 In a report entitled &#8220;Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014,&#8221; the World Health Organization issues a warning that&#8217;s about as dire as could be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. &#8230; A post-antibiotic era \u2013 in which common infections and minor injuries can kill \u2013 far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st Century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Another situation in which sacrifice will be expected from &#8220;the other guy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careless doctors writing prescriptions and careless patients using antibiotics have created a massive new vulnerability in our health care.\u00a0 In a report entitled &#8220;Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014,&#8221; the World Health Organization issues a warning that&#8217;s about as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}