More than 1.2 million people died in 2019 from infections caused by bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, higher than HIV/AIDS or malaria, according to a new report published on Thursday. READ:
Global health officials have repeatedly warned about the rise of drug-resistant bacteria and other microbes due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which encourages microorganisms to evolve into “superbugs.”, revealed that antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths and associated with about 4.95 million deaths. The study analyzed data from 204 countries and territories.
Last year, the World Health Organization warned that none of the 43 antibiotics in development or recently approved medicines were enough to combat antimicrobial resistance. “The traditional antibiotic model that we’ve had for past number of decades since penicillin. I think it is tapped out.” AMR’s impact is now most severe in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, while around one in five deaths is in children aged under five years.
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