The Gar Foundation

The Antibiotics resistance event in Helsinki 2019 with several stakeholders has been a big and decisive eye opener. Antibiotics are the foundation of healthcare and if they cease to work then many forms of treatment, such as the simplest surgical operation would become extremely dangerous, due to infection risk.
If we don’t start soon with a decent antibiotics program then we will lose the war against the microbes and end up back in the middle ages. This is perhaps even a problem of the same importance as global warming but not many people seem to realize. Each year already only in the U.S., at least 2.8 million people get an antibiotic-resistant infection and more than 35,000 people die and about the same amount of people (33.000 in 2018) die in Europe.  Bacteria are getting more and more resistant against the normal drugs that we have. Resistant bacteria have been even found in the most remote areas on the planet.