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Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds (www.theguardian.com)

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Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead.

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments in 2023, with more than 40% of antibiotics losing potency against common blood, gut, urinary tract and sexually-transmitted infections between 2018 and 2023, records show.

The problem was most severe, and worsening, in low and middle-income countries and those with weaker healthcare systems, according to the World Health Organization’s Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance report, which gathered data on more than 23m bacterial infections from 104 countries.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

Thanks, meat industry. This means people will make simple changes to their diets in order to save humanity’s greatest invention, right? Right?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Probably the craziest study I've ever seen was one of Harvard's on antibiotic resistance. The tldr is that it took e.coli 11 days to evolve resistance to 1000x the concentration of antibiotic that's normally fatal to wild strains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

It's actually kind of impressive to me that antibiotics don't become obsolete a few years after their discovery.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The main issue is that we aren't inventing new antibiotics

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 12 points 22 hours ago

That's incorrect in multiple ways. The largest problem is that we are over prescribing antibiotics, and a lot of patients are really non compliant in their uses. If patients don't finish their antibiotics, the chances of the bacteria survive and adapt to the medication goes up drastically.

A lesser problem is that with warmer climates and increasing populations, infections will become more commonplace.

We are still making new types of antibiotics, specifically to overcome drug resistant bacteria. An example of such is Avycaz, which was approved in 2015, or Lariocidin which was published this year.

We are coming up with new antibiotics every year, the problem is that there are only so many mechanisms to inhibit bacteria from reproducing. And once a bacteria overcomes the way a particular antibiotic exploits a weakness it becomes resistant to a whole class of medications that utilize the same or similar exploitations.