“Antibiotic resistance is another pandemic. It is not like Covid that it all came together. It is coming slowly and, if we do not remedy it, we will have very serious problems in 10 years. It is a great challenge. We have We certainly need other antibiotics, new, but by themselves they are not enough. We must also have alternative measures. And the vaccines against resistant bacteria, which we are developing thanks to new technologies, are “. According to Rino Rappuoli, chief scientist GSK vaccines during ‘InnovaCtion, what do ideas need to become health, business, future’, promoted by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the Verona office, on the occasion of 90 years of presence in our country.
“Antibiotics – he continues – have been a discovery that has saved many lives. We have abused them and we do everything we can not to use them well. So all the bacteria are becoming resistant. So this extraordinary means, which has saved many people, which allows us surgery is becoming a blunt weapon. In order not to abuse vaccines are a remedy. Today we have the technology to make new ones against resistant bacteria, we are working on it. Some are already in an advanced stage, others are at the beginning, but in the next few years I am sure that we will be able to win this battle “.
“Antibiotics – underlines Rappuoli – as drugs work very well. But as soon as we start using them somewhere in the world there is already a resistant bacterium. We use them for a while and they become obsolete. Vaccines, if they work – there are some some we’ve been using for nearly a century – they don’t create resistance. When we ‘conquer’ a disease with a vaccine, it’s usually forever. ”
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