一项由英国政府委托调研的报告结果显示，如果人们再不行动起来对抗“超级病菌”的话，那么到 2050 年，平均每三秒钟，超级病菌就会夺走一个人的生命。英国医生建议人们减少抗生素的使用。接下来查字典英语网与大家讨论人类对越来越多的细菌产生抗药性的担忧。
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词汇: medicine 药物
IfyouliveinEnglandandhaveamildinfection, don'taskyourGPtorecommendantibiotics. He'llprobablysay 'no' andgiveyousomethingelse. Thisispartofaninitiativetoputastoptoharmfulinfectionsbecomingresistanttothesedrugs.
RecentfiguresfromtheNHShaveshownthatthenumberofprescriptionsforalltypesofantibioticsweredownby 7.3% onthepreviousyeartoabout 34 millionin 2015 and 2016, whichisconsideredasuccessbytheauthorities.
PeterTaylor, ProfessorofMicrobiology, UCLSchoolofPharmacy, saysthatantibioticsareprobably "thesafestandmosteffectivedrugseverproduced, buttheyhaveanAchillesheel - everytimeweuseanantibioticitaltersthelevelsofbacteriaoutthereintheenvironmentandengendersresistanceinawaythatisverysimilartoDarwiniannaturalselection".
ThepowerofthesesubstanceswasdiscoveredbyAlexanderFlemingin 1928 almostbychance. TheScottishbacteriologistreturnedtohislaboratoryafteraholidaytofindabacteria-freecirclearoundagrowthofmouldonaPetridish. Itgaveusourfirstantibiotic: penicillin.
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