US EditionGlobal antibiotic resistance reaches alarming levels in 2023
One in six bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotics in 2023, with resistance highest in South-East Asian and Eastern Mediterranean regions, WHO reports.
- The World Health Organization's new Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 says one in six bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotics, based on GLASS data covering 8 pathogens.
- Weak surveillance and rising antimicrobial use have driven antimicrobial resistance, outpacing medical advances and fueled by limited laboratory systems and surveillance capacity across human, animal and environmental antimicrobial use.
- Data show resistance rose sharply between 2018 and 2023, with over 40% of pathogen-antibiotic combinations affected and more than 40% of Escherichia coli plus over 55% of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant to third-generation cephalosporins.
- The report links AMR to about five million deaths, and Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake warned `By 2050, this could reach 10 million deaths a year and have a negative impact on global GDP with global losses of US$100 trillion `.
- With large surveillance gaps, WHO calls for all countries to report high-quality AMR data to GLASS by 2030 and strengthen laboratory systems and coordinated interventions after 48% failed to report in 2023.
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Global antibiotic resistance reaches alarming levels in 2023
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Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds
(The Guardian) – Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050 Hospitals across the world have recorded an alarming rise in common infections that are resistant to antibiotics, with doctors saying the number of deaths driven by drug resistance will increase sharply in the years ahead. One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments in 2023, with more…
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