MORE than 1 in 10 British children are carrying superbugs resistant to one or
more antibiotics. The proportion of adult carriers could be even higher.
The superbugs are no immediate threat to those carrying them, but could cause
dangerous infections after an operation, for example. Carriers can also infect
other people.
The finding has serious public-health implications, warns Michael Millar of
Bart’s and the Royal London School of Medicine, the study’s author. “This may be
just the beginning of something that will take off in a big way. We need
policies to control antibiotic resistance that go across boundaries.”
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