UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Wednesday launched a global effort to fight so-called super-bugs that resist antibiotics, warning of a mounting death toll without more research.

"Some scientists call it a slow-motion tsunami," Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, told a first-of-a-kind UN meeting on the problem.

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