Health
Commentary: A larger, more sinister pandemic lurks beneath COVID-19 – CNA
About 700,000 people die each year due to antimicrobial resistance, says Thomas Cueni.
GENEVA: More than one in five Americans hospitalised with COVID-19 also contracts a bacterial infection.
Absent effective antibiotics, those lucky enough to beat the coronavirus might die at the hands of these not-so-novel pathogens.
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Unfortunately, the pipeline of new antibiotics is running dry. Less than 100 years after the development of penicillin, drug-resistant superbugs are threatening to gain the upper hand in our fight against bacterial infections.
Superbugs already…
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