Stuart Levy runs a group dedicated to publicizing this problem.
The GLASS initiative was launched in 2016 to counter this issue. Stuart Levy runs a group dedicated to publicizing this problem. One of Ted Kennedy's final legislative actions was co-sponsoring the failed PAMTA bill about this issue with Louise Slaughter. Because of this issue Congress approved the LPAD mechanism in 2014. For the last year, the coiner of the term BRICS, Jim O'Neill, has chaired a review committee investigating this problem. In 2014, the Longitude Prize in Britain was resurrected to focus on it. Research efforts countering this problem, influenced by the original work of Selman (*) Waksman, include Yale's Small World Initiative and mainly focus on screening soil samples. In June 2016, this problem got worse when the mcr-1 gene, a cousin of the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, turned up in the US. For 10 points, name this issue which makes penicillins ineffective against bacteria.
The GLASS initiative was launched in 2016 to counter this issue.
antibiotic resistance [or antimicrobial resistance; or AMR; or drug resistance; or resistance to any specific antibiotics or drugs; or overprescription of antibiotics by doctors or similar answers; or the fact that we are running out of effective antibiotics or various similar answers; or superbugs]