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". The discovery of antimicrobial treatments in the last century was one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of medicine. Humanity found a weapon against an enemy that had formerly destroyed human lives with impunity, often in terrible epidemics. Today, however, the number of micro-organisms that are resistant to these treatments is beginning to increase dangerously. The efforts of micro-organisms to save and preserve themselves force them to adapt to the treatments in use, and if they cannot do this, they perish. Those bacteria that learn to survive in the presence of antibiotics, grow more, mutate, multiply and complicate treatment, often even causing death. They then spread to other people, particularly from hospitals. We have unfortunately not found effective new substances. Only 1.6% of treatments currently being developed are antibiotic. From this perspective, we can therefore reasonably state that we are in a stage of total antibacterial disarmament. The World Health Organisation has therefore proposed a set of measures to halt the spread of resistance to medicines. In addition to the incorrect prescribing of antimicrobial substances, specialists have also defined other factors which encourage the emergence of resistance. They draw attention in particular to incomplete national rules on the use of these medicines, and lack of compliance with these rules. The Council recommendations of 2001 on careful use of antimicrobial substances in human medicine also look deficient today in terms of practical application. I would therefore like to quote the slogan of the WHO for this year’s World Health Day, concerning the fight against antimicrobial resistance, which goes: no action today, no cure tomorrow."@en1
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