Merck & Co.

We at ACSH have been beating this drum for years: The world is getting into serious trouble bad enough to make Ebola seems like athlete s foot because of the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria coupled with a sharp decline in drug discovery research in this area. Some public health officials believe that this is the single biggest threat to global human health one that could take us back to the days before the discovery of penicillin, when death from common diseases such as pneumonia and strep throat was common.