Drug-resistant superbugs' spread surging, World Health Organization warns

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Source: CBS news


October 13, 2025 / 5:10 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

Geneva -- The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly.

The United Nations' health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 showed resistance to antibiotic treatments.

"These findings are deeply concerning," Yvan J-F. Hutin, head of the WHO's antimicrobial resistance department, told reporters. "As antibiotic resistance continues to rise, we're running out of treatment options and we're putting lives at risk."

Bacteria have long developed resistance against medicines designed to fight them, rendering many drugs useless. And that's been accelerated by the massive use of antibiotics to treat humans, animals and food.

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In a report on AMR surveillance, the WHO examined resistance prevalence estimates for 22 antibiotics used to treat infections of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts, the bloodstream and those used to treat gonorrhoea.

In the five years leading to up 2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40 percent of the monitored antibiotics, with an average annual rise of between five and 15 percent, the report found.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Maybe micro-plastics will be the new antibiotics ./nt

[Lovie777]

2. It's been around for awhile ................

the super-bug, hopefully scientist around the world are working on it, excluding the USA that don't believe that God gave mankind the ability to solve matters of health, environment, etc.

Same religious nuts in Europe thought that cats were EVIL. Ordered that killed the cats en-masse. Cats are one of mice, rats enemy/food, so when there were basically very few cats, the great plague commenced, killing a whole lot of Europeans.

Now, in a lot of European countries, cats are cherished.