Viet Nam News By Dr. Mattias Larsson* The child of my friend, who is 13 months old, was admitted to a Vietnamese hospital with meningitis. He was treated for two weeks and recovered. During the third week he developed a blood infection. Despite being treated with the strongest broad-spectrum antibiotics, he died. I was at the hospital working and got involved. I have spent 20 years researching the use of antibiotics and resistance to them in Việt Nam and other countries. With this tragedy, it became personal and affected me deeply. Working with the Vietnamese healthcare sector for two decades, I have watched in ‘real-time’ the deterioration of the effectiveness of antibiotics where we now have ‘super-bugs’ spreading everywhere that can cause infections that are untreatable. How did we get here? Antibiotics are one of the pillars of modern medicine and have contributed to the enormous improvement of health that we have seen globally in the past … [Read more...] about The antibiotic apocalypse and what you can do to prevent it