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flag Antibiotic resistance is rising globally, causing over a million deaths yearly, with one in six lab-confirmed infections resistant in 2023.

flag A new World Health Organization report reveals that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide were resistant to antibiotics in 2023, with resistance rising across 40% of monitored antibiotics between 2018 and 2023. flag The crisis is most severe in Southeast Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, where one in three infections are resistant, and in Africa, where resistance exceeds 70% for some key drugs. flag Common infections like urinary tract and bloodstream infections caused by E. coli and K. pneumoniae are increasingly untreatable due to resistance to first-line antibiotics. flag The WHO warns that antimicrobial resistance is undermining modern medicine, causing over a million deaths annually, and stresses urgent global action on surveillance, antibiotic stewardship, and new treatments.

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