Tens of thousands of people are already dying from infections that have evolved resistance to common treatmentsBritain to lead a global fightback against antibiotic-resistant superbugs from the world "were thrown back into the medieval medicine", David Cameron is to announce today.
Untreatable bacteria rise threatens "the impossible scenario" in which the Prime Minister once again, minor infections can told The Times the warning as a threat to the health of one of the largest in the world.
Tens of thousands of people are already dying from infections that have evolved resistance to common treatments and the World Health Organization has warned the routine operations and the scratches become fatal, if nothing is done.
Mr Cameron has become the first world leader to talk about the threat, signaling escalating global at the highest level.
He believes that he has an agreement with President Obama and Angela Merkel in a coordinated effort to find new medicines after raised with them privately during the Summit of the G7 countries last month.
"It is not a distant threat but something is happening right now," Mr Cameron said. "If we do not act, we are looking for a nearly impossiblescenario, where antibiotics no longer work and we are thrown back into the dark ages of medicine with treatable infections and injuries to kill once again.
"It cannot be allowed to happened and I want to see a stronger and more coherent global."
Jim O'Neill, a former Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs to lead the international expert group, whose aim is to encourage the development of "a new generation of antibiotics."
Mr O'Neill is asked to consider how Governments would pay pharmaceutical companies for the production of drugs, even though they rarely were used as well as how to encourage poorer countries to improve monitoring of existing antibiotics.
Only five new types of antibiotics in use since the 1960s, and the newly-developed drug supply is fading, because companies see little profit in working for the treatments are designed to be used only as a last resort.
Appeals for doctors and patients to avoid antibiotics for runny nose and sore throat are no longer enough.
Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, has put pressure on Mr Cameron to launch the global efforts to find new drugs, without which the bulk of modern medicine, hip replacements with chemotherapy, could be impossible.
"I have listened to the scientific information that I receive and the network of advisers say it all, this is one of the most serious health problems the world faces," Member Cameron said. "Many of us only know in the world where infections or diseases can quickly fix a visit to the doctor and antibiotics. The great British invention is safe in our family, for decades while saving billions of lives around the world. But that is under threat as never before. Resistance to antibiotics is now a very real and worrying threat. "
After the success in persuading world leaders to commit to stepping into research on dementia special G7 Summit last year, Mr Cameron believes that similar progress may be finding new antibiotics as well as fallback treatments for diseases, parasitic and viral infections such as malaria and HIV, which are also the signs of resistance to the drugs.
The Prime Minister added: "when we have had problems in the past is how we deal with HIV and Aids, how it is possible to lead the world, and to get rid of diseases such as polio, the United Kingdom has taken a lead, and I think that is right, we'll take the lead again."
Professor Laura Piddock, Executive Director of the campaign group for antibiotic activity, said that "it is extremely important that the United Kingdom took over the leadership role on this issue" and urged politicians not to lose interest in the Socialist Group to find solutions.
Work on the initial cost of £ 500,000 is funded by the Wellcome Trust, who said the only commitment could produce the same kind of progress seen in recent decades, global Aids treatment or vaccination.
Jeremy Farrar, Director of the charity, said: "the drug-resistant bacteria, viruses and parasites are driving the global crisis. This threatens not only our ability to treat deadly infections, but in almost every aspect of modern medicine: Caesarean sections, cancer treatments that save thousands of human lives on a daily basis to rely on antibiotics, which may soon be lost. "
Malaria is not confined to the emerging resistance to the bacteria. Malarial parasites are becoming resistant to conventional treatment in Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
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