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Are We Heading Toward a Tsunami of Antimicrobial Resistance?

Via Mercola

Analysis by Tessa Lena

tsunami of antimicrobial resistance

Story at-a-glance

  • Health authorities and the World Economic Forum predict that millions of people will be dying from superbugs every year by 2050
  • According to the WEF, antimicrobial resistance is a “looming health catastrophe that could be more deadly than COVID-19”
  • They are calling for a new “subscription model” as a solution and a “political intervention to reconstruct the market and make the development, production of and marketing antibiotics profitable again”
  • While there is no reason to believe the WEF on anything, antimicrobial resistance is on the rise due to overuse of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, antibiotics into water supply, overuse of antibacterial household products, and weakened immunity due to stress and toxins
  • Superbug infections are particularly alarming in hospital settings

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The Next Pandemic Is Here — Antimicrobial Resistance

Guest Post by Dr. Mercola

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10 global public health threats to humanity, but it rarely makes front page news.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared one of the top 10 global public health threats to humanity.

Story at-a-glance:

  • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared one of the top 10 global public health threats to humanity, but it rarely makes front page news, especially now that COVID has entered the arena.
  • Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic — and its unprecedented promotion of hand sanitizer, antimicrobials and disinfectants — made AMR worse, but it continues to overshadow the growing threat of AMR.
  • Incidence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales colonization increased from 6.7% in 2019 to 50% in March to April 2020.
  • Antibiotic use increased throughout the pandemic; about 79% to 96% of people who reported taking antibiotics didn’t have COVID-19 but were taking them in the hopes of preventing infection, even though antibiotics don’t work against viral infections.
  • While about 15% of people with severe COVID-19 may develop a bacterial co-infection that would require antibiotics, 75% of COVID-19 patients were actually receiving such drugs.
  • Antibiotic resistance (AR) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) took a backseat to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it hasn’t gone away. It remains “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time,” as even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admits.

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