'We have arrived in the post-antibiotic era': WHO warns of too few new drugs for deadly superbugs

As superbug infections grow more common, the world is running out of drugs to treat them Health officials are sounding increasingly urgent alarms about the need for powerful new drugs to treat increasingly resistant infections. NBC News

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Preliminary data from the report, released by the WHO this month, paint a dire picture: Just 27 new antibiotics for the most threatening infections are in the clinical trial stage of drug development. In contrast, there were more than 1,300 cancer drugs in clinical trials in 2020, according to a report from the trade organization Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. 

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