Sep 07, 2010
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According to the WHO, NDM-1 needs more monitoring and further study.
Additionally, the UN agency recommends that governments focus their efforts to four areas: surveillance, rational antibiotic use, legislation to stop sales of antibiotics without prescription and rigorous infection prevention measures.
Meanwhile, on Thursday (September 9), Taiwan declared that NDM-1 had been classified as a category-four communicable disease, Tamil News Network (TNN) said. A category four means that hospitals and clinics will have to immediately report any suspected cases.
TNN also reported on Friday that the World Health Organization had recently designated antimicrobial resistance to be the official global theme for World Health Day 2011 scheduled on April 7.
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