CSPAN Washington This Week September 21, 2014
Were seeing people who, in fact, cannot be treated with any existing therapy that we have. And i think the threat here to Public Health is we can have emerging epidemics of these organisms if they will spread. Right now they are fairly limited and sporadic but they will spread and well be in a situation where we literally cant treat an infection that is unfolding in a wider sense. In addition each year were seeing greater and greater resistance problems for ordinary microorganisms. So doctors are turning to second or third line antimicrobial agents, agents we used to reserve for very selected ...