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England's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies has given a warning that increasing resistance to antibiotics could lead to "a lot of suffering" and "the end of modern medicine".

To increase public awareness of the problem, she recommended including on death certificates that an individual died of an infection that couldn't be treated with antibiotics.

Kristiina Cooper reports.

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