European Parliament to tackle antibiotic resistance

The European Parliament has voted for a number of measures to tackle the growing resistance to both human and veterinary antibiotics.

There’s growing concern that people are dying of infections because the antibiotics they’re receiving aren’t able to fight infections anymore.

Independent MEP Marian Harkin says the over prescription of antibiotics is a serious issue that needs to be urgently addressed: "We are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics.

"What we now look on as fairly standard procedures, like maybe a hip replacement or cancer therapies, that they would become next nigh to impossible because of the huge risks of infection.

"We are not at that point yet but we’re getting there."