Thread by @WHO

As a record number of countries are now monitoring & reporting on #antibioticresistance, new data reveals that a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines 💊 at hand to treat them.

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High rates of resistance among antimicrobial medicines frequently used to treat common infections, such as urinary tract infections or some forms of diarrhea, indicate that the world is running out of effective ways to tackle these diseases.

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The increase of #antimicrobialresistance could further be fueled by the inappropriate use of antibiotics during the #COVID19 pandemic.

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Evidence shows that only a small proportion of #COVID19 patients need #antibiotics to treat subsequent bacterial infections & antibiotics should only be provided to patients when there is a clinical indication to do so.

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Declining investment & the lack of innovation in the development of new antimicrobial treatments are additional factors that are undermining efforts to combat drug-resistant infections.

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In only 3 years of existence, WHO’s Global #AntimicrobialResistance & Use Surveillance System has become a 🔑 catalyst in the 🌐 fight against drug resistance. It now aggregates data from over:
-64,000 surveillance sites
-2 million patients
-66 countries
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