Another Antibiotic Crisis: Fragile Supply Leads to Shortages

Another Antibiotic Crisis: Fragile Supply Leads to Shortages
A technician stocks the shelves of a pharmacy in Kentucky, Feb. 2018. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston/File Photo
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LONDON—Shortages of some life-saving antibiotics are putting growing numbers of patients at risk and fuelling the evolution of “superbugs” that do not respond to modern medicines, according to a new report on Thursday.

The non-profit Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF) said there was an emerging crisis in the global anti-infectives market as fragile drug supply chains - reliant on just a few big suppliers - come close to collapse.