A five year plan to stop the spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs struggled to get off the ground because of funding cuts
A five year plan to stop the spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs struggled to get off the ground because of funding cuts
5 July 2019
New documents, released under the Official Information Act, show a 10 million dollar a year shortfall... causing the plan to be scaled down.
Otago University Professor of Biochemistry, Kurt Krause , says superbugs are a growing problem.
He says there were about 65 infections from the most severe types of superbug last year... up from just a trickle of reports several years earlier.
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