UN News - Over 50 per cent of life-threatening bacterial infections are becoming resistant to treatment, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report published. Moreover, the high levels of resistance to treatment are reported in bacteria, frequently causing bloodstream infections in hospitals, the Global Antimicrobial Resistance and
UN NEWS—A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the “world’s most dangerous bacteria”, the UN health agency said on Thursday. The alert from the World Health Organization (WHO) is delivered in a report showing that none of the 43 antibiotics in development today sufficiently addresses the growing threat posed by 13 priority drug-resistant bacteria. “The persistent failure to develop, manufacture, and distribute effective new antibiotics is further fuelling the impact
