Greater coordination could lead to more drugs and treatments available to help in the next pandemic, Rep. Levin said.
“Besides the typical bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics that most people know about, California is really experiencing an issue surrounding Valley Fever,” said Raymond Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Levin. “Antifungals are becoming less effective against Valley Fever which makes enhanced antimicrobial development even more important.
“We want to ensure that there is coordination between governments and streamlined access to vital treatments ahead of the next pandemic,” Rodriguez said. Recently-approved antibiotics are “insufficient to tackle the challenge of increasing emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance,” which occurs when germs don’t respond to drugs designed to kill them, an annualSuperbugs infect at least 2.8 million people in the U.S. every year, according to“The United States needs to take swift and decisive steps to improve our antimicrobial research and development,” Georgia Rep. Drew Ferguson, a Republican co-sponsor of the bill, said.
The bill is endorsed by a number of medical organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society of Microbiology. Act, the bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, and Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nevada, as well as Ferguson. It has been assigned to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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