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The global public health concern for the antibiotic resistance is not a future issue; it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any part of the world. New WHO reports, with data from 114 countries provides the ...
Antibioticresistance is recognised as a major global threat topublic healthby the World Health Organization. Currently, several hundred thousand deaths yearly can be attributed to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The major driver for the development ofantibioticresistance is considered to be ...
As long as antibiotics have existed, so too has antibiotic resistance—the inevitable result as infectious bacteria continually evolve to evade the very drugs designed to kill them. Today, antibiotic resistance is considered a major global health threat. In the United States, The Centers for Disease...
"Antimicrobial resistance undermines modern medicine and puts millions of lives at risk," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "To truly understand the extent of the global threat and mount an effective public health response to AMR, we must scale up microbiology testing and provi...
Professor Paul Cosford, medical director at PHE, said: "Antibiotic resistance is not a distant threat, but is in fact one of the most dangerous global crises facing the modern world today. "Taking antibiotics when you don't need them puts you and your family at risk of developing i...
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Microbial resistance now global threat The experts pointed out that there was a dire need to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid development of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are considered as the foundation of modern medicine, but its overu...
Bacterial antibiotic resistance has been recognized as a global threat to public health. It challenges the antibiotics currently used in clinical practice and causes severe and often fatal infectious diseases. Fighting against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) is growing more urgent. While understanding...
The report, called the Global Review on AMR (antimicrobial resistance), warns that by 2005, antimicrobial resistance could be responsible for killing 10 million people across the world every year, the equivalent of one person every 3 seconds - higher than the annual global death toll from cancer...