The article at Reuters says that in some countries resistance is already insanely high, and predicted to get worse:
In low and middle-income countries, drug resistance is high and projected to grow rapidly. In Brazil, Indonesia and Russia, for example, between 40 percent and 60 percent of infections are already drug resistant, compared to an OECD average of 17 percent, and AMR rates are forecast to grow between 4 and 7 times faster than the OECD average between now and 2050.
They suggest the following to get on top of the problem:
- better hygiene
- ending over-prescription of antibiotics
- rapidly testing patients to ensure they get the right drug for infections
- delaying antibiotic prescriptions
- delivering mass media campaigns
Every government should be promoting the fact that doctors giving antibiotics to people who don’t need them could kill us.