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View all search resultsAs AMR emerges as a global health concern, the government has launched a new strategy to better regulate and monitor the appropriate use of antimicrobials, including through public education, in both medicine and animal husbandry.
The private sector agreement aims to develop a new class of synthetic antibiotics to address the growing issue of drug-resistant superbugs, which can cause previously treatable infectious diseases to become deadly.
Most patients admitted to hospitals with acute viral infections are given antibiotics as a precaution against bacterial co-infection, but this practice may not improve survival, new research suggests.
Across the world, antimicrobial resistance already kills an estimated 700,000 people each year. By 2050, unless urgent action is taken, it is projected to kill 10 million annually at a cost of US$10 trillion.
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