One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.. Between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance rose in more than 40 percent of the pathogen-antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent, says the report launched on Monday.
Data reported to the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System from more than 100 countries cautions that increasing resistance to essential antibiotics poses a growing threat to global health.
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