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ASK PETER: Fighting Against Superbugs

Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the latest installment of Ask Peter today, a frequent video conversation with Sixth District residents about issues important to them. In this segment, Congressman Roskam answers a Facebook post from Rick Nelson who stresses the importance of preventing antibiotic resistance infections, or superbugs. Each year, two million people suffer superbug infections and 23,000 have died as a result.

To watch the Ask Peter video, click here.

“I introduced the DISARM Act and it does two things. It creates an incentive for companies to manufacture these drugs that we need and secondly it calls for an agency-wide review to cut the red tape so we can get to production as quickly as possible. Look, we don’t want to have a situation where a doctor looks at you and says, ‘I can’t help your loved one because I don’t have the drugs to administer to that person right now.’ This is an opportunity for us to take this on, to move forward, to work together and come up with a solution.”

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Learn more about the DISARM Act here.

Ask Peter videos are available at roskam.house.gov, Facebook, Twitter, and via press release. The videos are sent to constituents via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter, depending on how they contacted the Roskam office.

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