And as well as allowing the use of antibiotics to carry on saving our lives, this will make a huge difference to the current over-use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. It could have come sooner but it’s a hugely important development and one that we should be shouting to the rafters. It will also be a massive issue for the drug saturated US agri-business, which accounts for around 75% of all antibiotics sold in US every year. But this is big pharma. So fuck ’em.
There’s more on this in The Guardian piece. But let’s make sure we keep up the pressure to ensure the UK doesn’t try & wriggle out of this. Especially as a certain Mr Alexander Fleming warned about this over 70 years ago…