Six must-dos to avoid bacterial apocalypse

Before the advent of antibiotics infectious diseases accounted for 45% of all deaths. While that mortality rate has fallen to 7% in the developed economies the emergence of antimicrobial resistant pathogens means there is a danger of returning to a pre-antibiotic world. This was the stark warning from Professor Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer of England, in her keynote speech at the opening of BioInfect 2013, organized by Bionow, BioHub and Redx Pharma at AstraZeneca's Alderley Park facility in the UK on 26 November.