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Maroc Maroc - WN.COM - Africa - 03/Mar 16:17

Superbugs plus climate change equals double trouble. Here’s why

What once was a medical miracle has become a nightmare. At a Bhekisisa webinar, scientists discussed how changing climate conditions are helping the spread of germs, called bacteria, that antibiotics, which one of the experts at the online event called “the eureka of medicine”, can no longer kill. They’re called superbugs, because they’re near impossible to kill with the medicines we’ve relied on for decades. It’s a big problem. A study published in The Lancet found that in 2019, such drug-resistant infections killed 1.27-million people worldwide. In roughly the same period, global HIV-related deaths were estimated at around 718 000 a year. In other words, infections caused by bacterial...

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