Dame Sally Davies has described the rising risk of antibiotic resistance as a bigger threat than global warming and has warned that the population could be facing an "apocalyptic scenario".


The chief medical officer for the Department of Health was speaking to MPs at a science and technology committee meeting.

She told them: "It is clear that we might never see global warming. The apocalyptic scenario is that, if I need a new hip in 20 years, I'll die from a routine infection because we've run out of antibiotics."

Davies said that 80 percent of gonorrhoea cases were now resistant to antibiotics and the number of cases among young and middle-aged people was on the rise.
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