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View all search resultsMost 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.
Dead turtles have been found on the beach a number of times since April 2019. Some were caught in nets while others had plastic waste, detergent, cigarette butts and pieces of wood found in their digestive tracts. Most were found decayed with damaged organs.
At least 700,000 deaths worldwide are caused by drug-resistant bacteria each year, slashing about US$100 trillion from the combined gross domestic product and an additional $210 trillion from secondary effects, according to the United Nations Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance. This number could increase to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, if business continues as usual. #insight
State pharmaceutical company Bio Farma has increased the supply of diphtheria vaccines in Banten, Jakarta and West Java, following the implementation of the government’s Outbreak Response Immunization (ORI) program to tackle the spread of the bacterial infection in the three areas.
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