World Denmark creates global research hub for antibiotics resistance Denmark will create an international research centre focused on the fight against resistance to antibiotics, a scourge affecting almost 500,000 people BL PREMIUM

Denmark said on Thursday it will create an international research centre focused on the fight against resistance to antibiotics, a scourge affecting almost 500,000 people worldwide. Danish health minister Ellen Trane Norby signed a memorandum of understanding in Seattle, US, with the international network of research centres CGIAR, to establish the centre, her office said. Denmark aims to lead “future global work on finding new solutions for the serious challenges with antimicrobial resistance we are facing today”, Norby said. The International Centre for Interdisciplinary Solutions on AMR (antimicrobial resistance), financed by Denmark and private investors, will open in 2019 and is expected to employ up to 500 people. In 2016, 490,000 people developed a resistance to antibiotics, according to figures from the World Health Organisation. The growing problem causes 33,000 deaths in Europe each year, a recent study by the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Cont...