Antibiotic-resistant superbugs caused 1.2 million deaths in a year, study finds
2 years, 10 months ago

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs caused 1.2 million deaths in a year, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Based on the current analysis, researchers said there were an estimated 4.95 million deaths linked to superbugs in the year, including 1.27 million deaths attributable to bacterial AMR, making it the third-largest cause of death in 2019. “The study’s estimate of 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR globally in 2019 indicates that there are substantial gains to be made from preventing infections in the first place,” Dr Laxminarayan, who was not associated with the study, pointed out in an editorial about the findings in The Lancet. The study also noted that the six leading pathogens which caused deaths associated with drug resistance were Escherichia coli, followed by Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. These six bacteria, the researchers said, were responsible for 929,00 deaths attributable to AMR and 3.57 million deaths associated with AMR in 2019.

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Time to step up the fight against AMR
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Time to step up the fight against AMR

Hindustan Times  

Invisible yet rampant, antimicrobial resistance is responsible for five million deaths worldwide each year, surpassing both HIV/AIDS and malaria in terms of mortality rates. The recently concluded United Nations General Assembly special session on AMR, set an ambitious target of 70% antibiotic use belonging to the WHO ‘access’ groups with low adverse effects and potential to cause AMR. Collaborative efforts …

When more antibiotics cure fewer diseases
1 month ago

When more antibiotics cure fewer diseases

The Hindu  

Life took a sudden turn for 49-year-old David Thompson from Bengaluru when he was diagnosed with mouth cancer. “The incremental risk to life with infection, multidrug resistance and the side effects of powerful antibiotics is the ‘terrible triad’ of modern antimicrobial resistance. Swetavalli Raghavan, appointed as the advisor on AMR to Karnataka’s Health Department, is developing the Action Plan to …

By 2030, antibiotic use could skyrocket by 50%: What this means for you
1 month ago

By 2030, antibiotic use could skyrocket by 50%: What this means for you

India Today  

A recent study has revealed concerning trends in global antibiotic consumption, which is a key factor fuelling the rise of antimicrobial resistance. KEY FINDINGS OF THE STUDY Steady Increase in Antibiotic Use: Between 2016 and 2023, antibiotic sales in the reporting countries rose by 16.3%, from 29.5 billion daily doses to 34.3 billion. FUTURE PROJECTIONS By 2030, global antibiotic use …

A New Hope in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
2 months, 2 weeks ago

A New Hope in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 04, 2024 23:22 IST - 4 MINS READ AMR threatens to unwind a century of medical progress, and could return us to the pre-antibiotic era, where infections that are treatable today could become much harder to treat and potentially deadly tomorrow. AMR makes all manner of routine medical procedures riskier; in low- and middle-income countries, approximately 11 …

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia
3 months ago

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia

Hindustan Times  

A recent report by the Indian Council of Medical Research said that diseases like urinary tract infections, blood infections, pneumonia, and typhoid have developed resistance to commonly used antibiotics, making treatment more difficult. The Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network 2023 annual report findings show a worrying increase in antibiotic resistance nationwide. The ICMR’s Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network …

Drug-resistant germs will kill millions more people in coming decades, researchers warn
3 months, 1 week ago

Drug-resistant germs will kill millions more people in coming decades, researchers warn

LA Times  

Unless officials take action to develop new medications, drug-resistant infections could kill nearly 2 million people a year in 2050. Now, a new report finds that unless officials take action to develop new medications, “superbug” infections could kill nearly 2 million people a year in 2050 — a 67.5% increase from the 1.14 million lives lost this way in 2021. …

Drug-resistant superbugs projected to kill 39 million by 2050
3 months, 1 week ago

Drug-resistant superbugs projected to kill 39 million by 2050

The Hindu  

Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, September 16, 2024, with the researchers urging action to avoid this grim scenario. More than a million people died from the superbugs -- also called antimicrobial resistance -- per year across the world between 1990 and 2021, …

Nearly 40 million people could die from antibiotic-resistant superbug infections by 2050, new study estimates
3 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 40 million people could die from antibiotic-resistant superbug infections by 2050, new study estimates

CNN  

CNN — The number of lives lost around the world due to infections that are resistant to the medications intended to treat them could increase nearly 70% by 2050, a new study projects, further showing the burden of theongoing superbug crisis. Older adults bear the burden The researchers – from the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project, the Institute for …

Superbugs pose graver threat than Covid-19. Here's all you need to know about antimicrobial resistance
7 months, 1 week ago

Superbugs pose graver threat than Covid-19. Here's all you need to know about antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times  

As Covid-19 curve flattens, experts warn about the worrisome spike in drug-resistant superbugs that pose a greater risk that coronavirus and cause negative health outcomes as the bacteria is evolving and becoming resistant to existing antibiotics. With viruses, they often fade away as more people become immune but AMR doesn't work that way.” The emergence of drug-resistant superbugs poses significant …

Urgent action needed to combat antimicrobial resistance: Report
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Urgent action needed to combat antimicrobial resistance: Report

The Hindu  

Political leaders are ignoring the growing danger of antimicrobial resistance, which could lead to an unprecedented health and economic catastrophe, a high-level task force warned on April 4. "The world now has a limited and critical window of opportunity to respond at the scale and with the urgency proportionate to the rapidly increasing threats posed by AMR," according to a …

Drug war: On use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Drug war: On use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Prevention is better than cure, but taking this adage to the extreme in the practice of medicine might obnubilate the very purpose of treating patients to recovery, and even turn out to be counter-productive. The ‘First Multicentric Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Use at 20 NAC-NET Sites India 2021-22’ conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control under the Health …

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance
1 year ago

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times  

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to global public health as disease-causing germs develop resistance to life-saving antibiotics. As per a Lancet study, in 2019, five million human deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance worldwide, including nearly 1.3 million human deaths attributable to bacterial AMR. The theme for WAAW 2023 was ‘Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together’, which underscored the need …

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat
1 year, 1 month ago

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat

Hindustan Times  

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten our health, and yet only a few pharmaceutical companies are still conducting research into new antibiotic drugs to bring them to market. Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, known as MRSA, are particularly difficult to treat The independent, nonprofit organization has said drug resistance is a major threat, and has called for more research into new …

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO
1 year, 1 month ago

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO

The Hindu  

The South-East Asia regional office of the World Health Organization warned that antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for approximately 1.27 million deaths annually across the world, with current estimates placing the number of casualties in South Asia at 3,89 000. “By 2050, according to a report by the World Bank, antimicrobial resistance will be responsible for a decrease of up …

Deaths from drug-resistant infections surge after Covid pandemic
1 year, 1 month ago

Deaths from drug-resistant infections surge after Covid pandemic

The Telegraph  

“Treat antibiotics with respect,” the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency has urged, as the number of deaths caused by resistant infections rose for the second year in a row. “We expect that if we get a bacterial infection, an antibiotic will be available to treat us – but sometimes, already, that is simply impossible.” She said without …

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance
1 year, 5 months ago

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance

The Hindu  

Recently, in a hospital in the Indian city of Hyderabad, a patient in the ICU was realy ill with an extensive drug resistant bacterial infection. Abdul Ghafur, infectious diseases specialist, and one of the authors of the Chennai Declaration, a joint medical community effort to handle antimicrobial resistance in the country, says the precedent set by the COVID-19 pandemic and …

Pollution from life-saving drugs may add to superbug crisis, UN says
1 year, 10 months ago

Pollution from life-saving drugs may add to superbug crisis, UN says

Live Mint  

More attention must be paid to the role pollution plays in the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, to eliminate a “pandemic level threat,” according to a new United Nations report. “Getting serious about AMR means preventing environmental pollution,” said Inger Andersen, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. “Limiting the discharge of antimicrobial-laced waste to the environment …

Stakeholders must collaborate to reduce resistance to antibiotics
2 years, 1 month ago

Stakeholders must collaborate to reduce resistance to antibiotics

Hindustan Times  

One of the greatest medical discoveries during the past eight decades has been that of antibiotics. This undesired use of antibiotics facilitates selection of resistant germs which, through the food chain, reach humans causing difficult to treat infections. The United Nations General Assembly, WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, UNEP, G7, G20, G77, Association of South-East Asian …

Five bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Lancet study
2 years, 1 month ago

Five bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Lancet study

The Hindu  

Five bacteria types -- E. coli, S. pneumoniae, K. pneumoniae, S. aureus and A. baumanii -- caused nearly 6.8 lakh deaths in India in 2019, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. There were 7.7 million deaths in 2019 associated with 33 common bacterial infections, with five bacteria alone connected to more than half of all deaths, the …

Antimicrobial resistance is a silent killer, say doctors
2 years, 1 month ago

Antimicrobial resistance is a silent killer, say doctors

The Hindu  

At a conference on tackling antimicrobial resistance, experts called for measures to develop strategies to tackle the serious threat and the need for new antibiotics, molecules and diagnostics. Renu Swarup, former Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, said, “We have exposed all microbes, the small pool of antibiotics that we have and have made everything resistant.” She termed …

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?
2 years, 3 months ago

Study Finds 38% ICU Patients with Superbug Infections Die in 2 Weeks. Why Is This Worrying?

News 18  

A recent study on hospital-acquired infections has revealed a widespread presence of superbugs, or drug-resistant micro-organisms, in infection cases. The newly-formed Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance-India, a central government effort between All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi, the Indian Council for Medical Research, and the CDC, has found that superbugs were found in 3,080 blood samples and another 792 urine …

Sustained rise in antimicrobial resistance in India: ICMR study
2 years, 3 months ago

Sustained rise in antimicrobial resistance in India: ICMR study

The Hindu  

A big chunk of patients in India may no longer benefit from carbapenem, a powerful antibiotic administered mainly in ICU settings to treat pneumonia and septicemia, as they have developed antimicrobial resistance to it, an ICMR study has found. The data analysis done between January 1 and December 31, 2021, pointed towards a sustained increase in drug-resistant pathogens, resulting in …

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: New drug can fight off 300 different types of superbugs
2 years, 4 months ago

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: New drug can fight off 300 different types of superbugs

Daily Mail  

Scientists have developed a drug that is hoped could lead the fight against superbugs. Fabimycin — a man-made antibiotic — was found to kill hundreds of bacteria that are resistant to common medicines. Researchers found fabimycin — a yet to be approved antibiotic — works against infections caused by 300 types of gram-negative bacteria WHAT IS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE? It was …

Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic
2 years, 5 months ago

Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic

Hindustan Times  

The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. Before the pandemic, health officials said U.S. superbug infections appeared to be going down Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, a CDC expert, called it “a startling reversal” that he hopes was a one-year blip. Before the pandemic, health officials said U.S. superbug …

Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic
2 years, 5 months ago

Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. Before the pandemic, health officials said U.S. superbug infections appeared to be going down. But it does have data from seven kinds of bacterial and fungal infections that were detected in hospital patients, including MRSA and a …

‘Superbug’ infections, deaths rose at beginning of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Superbug’ infections, deaths rose at beginning of COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

A lab worker holds a petri dish with cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MSRA. The U.S. toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic after years of decline. The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. Before the pandemic, …

Antimicrobial resistance a major concern, say docs
2 years, 5 months ago

Antimicrobial resistance a major concern, say docs

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Doctors in the city have expressed serious concern over the growth in antimicrobial resistance and the risks connected with it for various reasons despite a study showing antimicrobial resistance contributed to 12.7 lakh fatalities in 2019. Speaking on the findings of a study titled ‘Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: A systematic analysis’, published in The Lancet …

Op-Ed: We’re losing the fight against superbugs, but there’s still hope
2 years, 7 months ago

Op-Ed: We’re losing the fight against superbugs, but there’s still hope

LA Times  

This scanning electron shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. Hospital stewardship programs — which manage the careful and optimal use of antimicrobial treatments — also had to redirect their limited resources away from antibiotic use to focus on the complex administration of COVID-19 therapeutics. Because doctors prudently limit their use of antimicrobials to avoid further resistance, there isn’t high demand to …

Covid-19 pandemic raised antibiotic resistant infections: Study
2 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 pandemic raised antibiotic resistant infections: Study

India TV News  

People hospitalised during the pandemic both for Covid and other conditions have a higher rate of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections compared to patients hospitalised before the pandemic, according to a study. The researchers assessed AMR rates per 100 hospital admissions before and during the Covid pandemic, and examined whether drug-resistant infections were acquired in the community-onset setting or in the hospital-onset …

Lessons from the pandemic must inform policy response to AMR
2 years, 9 months ago

Lessons from the pandemic must inform policy response to AMR

Hindustan Times  

The scourge of anti-microbial resistance is approaching us faster than we expected. Researchers from Washington University found that COVID-19 likely contributed to 216.4 million excess doses of antibiotics for adults and 38 million excess doses of Azithromycin for adults from June 2020 through September 2020, a peak of Covid in India, which led them to conclude that almost everyone who …

antimicrobial resistance
2 years, 10 months ago

antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators, “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis”, The Lancet, January 19, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-673602724-0. Arguably the first such comprehensive study on AMR globally, the paper authored by Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators states that AMR is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest number of deaths occurring in low-resource settings. “Understanding the …

Drug-resistant infections are a rapidly escalating global health crisis – we need to fight back
2 years, 11 months ago

Drug-resistant infections are a rapidly escalating global health crisis – we need to fight back

The Independent  

If the lessons of Covid-19 are anything to go by, the latest data on antimicrobial resistance and its worldwide impact should stir policymakers into immediate action. A striking new study published in The Lancet – the most comprehensive of its kind to date – estimates that 1.27 million people died as a result of antibiotic resistant infections in 2019. This …

Study: Drug-resistant bacteria kill 1.2 million globally
2 years, 11 months ago

Study: Drug-resistant bacteria kill 1.2 million globally

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Antibiotic-resistant germs caused more than 1.2 million deaths globally in one year, according to new research that suggests that these “superbugs” have joined the ranks of the world’s leading infectious disease killers. The World Health Organization has been citing a global estimate — several years old — that suggested at least 700,000 people die each year due …

Explained | The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
2 years, 11 months ago

Explained | The challenge of antimicrobial resistance

The Hindu  

Story so far: Antimicrobial resistance, or antibiotics becoming ineffective because pathogens such as viruses, fungi and bacteria become resistant to them, has long been recognised as a major threat to public health. Lower respiratory-tract infections accounted for more than 1.5 million deaths associated with resistance in 2019, making it the most common infectious syndrome. The data was then broken down, …

Antibiotic resistance caused 1.2 million deaths in 2019: AMR and its link to COVID-19 explained
2 years, 11 months ago

Antibiotic resistance caused 1.2 million deaths in 2019: AMR and its link to COVID-19 explained

Firstpost  

A new study covering 204 countries showed that at least 1.2 million people died in 2019 due to drug-resistant bacterial infections, ahead of both HIV and malaria As the world battles the COVID-19 epidemic, the antimicrobial resistance pandemic looms in the shadows. A recent study covering 204 countries published in The Lancet has found that 1.27 million people died in …

Anti-biotic resistant superbugs killed 1.2 million people in 2019, claims study
2 years, 11 months ago

Anti-biotic resistant superbugs killed 1.2 million people in 2019, claims study

Hindustan Times  

Anti-biotic resistant infection killed 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a study published in The Lancet. The figure of 1.2 million fatalities is much higher than the estimates released by the World Health Organization, which said that 700,000 people died from drug-resistant infection. A 2018 study, carried out in 10 Fortis Group hospitals in India, found that patients with …

Study: Drug-resistant bacteria kill 1.2 million globally
2 years, 11 months ago

Study: Drug-resistant bacteria kill 1.2 million globally

LA Times  

Antibiotic-resistant germs caused more than 1.2 million deaths globally in one year, according to new research. Antibiotic-resistant germs caused more than 1.2 million deaths globally in one year, according to new research that suggests that these “superbugs” have joined the ranks of the world’s leading infectious disease killers. The World Health Organization has been citing a global estimate — several …

Use Covid-19 Lessons to Battle Deadly Drug-resistant 'Superbugs': WHO
3 years, 8 months ago

Use Covid-19 Lessons to Battle Deadly Drug-resistant 'Superbugs': WHO

News 18  

Lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic should be used to fight the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, which kill tens of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “Antibiotics present the Achilles heel for universal health coverage and our global health security,” Haileyesus Getahun, who heads the WHO’s antimicrobial resistance division, warned in a statement. “Opportunities emerging …

India Saw 30% Rise in Antibiotic Use in the last Decade
3 years, 10 months ago

India Saw 30% Rise in Antibiotic Use in the last Decade

The Quint  

Although AMR poses an urgent global public health threat, more people in LMICs die from lack of access to antimicrobials than from resistant infections, stressed the report. Global efforts to reduce the inappropriate use of antimicrobials and to mitigate AMR must also increase consistent access to affordable and clinically appropriate antimicrobials. “Increasing antibiotic consumption itself is not a problem; in …

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