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Maggie Fox interviewsDr. Okeke, a bacterial geneticist
The Stubborn Germs That Are Getting the Upper Hand
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Each year, an estimated 7.7 million deaths are caused by bacterial infections, and nearly 5 million of these deaths are associated with drug-resistant bacteria. These infections include newborn babies, the elderly, and cancer patients, but also people who were young, fit, and healthy before they got infected.
AMR is a major topic of discussion this year (2024) and it will take top billing at the United Nations General Assembly. To set the tone for all the discussion, the Lancet has published a series of four papers reviewing the problem and laying out some of the solutions. For the series, the One Health Trust’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan brought together experts from around the world to address the issue.
Dr. Iruka Okeke of the Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria helped write the first of these papers. Dr. Okeke, a bacterial geneticist, points out that antimicrobial-resistant infections can happen anywhere – in hospital patients, in people leading their everyday lives, in farm animals, and in nature among wildlife.
more...and audio at this link:
https://onehealthtrust.org/news-media/podcasts/the-stubborn-germs-that-are-getting-the-upper-hand/
The Stubborn Germs That Are Getting the Upper Hand
snip
Each year, an estimated 7.7 million deaths are caused by bacterial infections, and nearly 5 million of these deaths are associated with drug-resistant bacteria. These infections include newborn babies, the elderly, and cancer patients, but also people who were young, fit, and healthy before they got infected.
AMR is a major topic of discussion this year (2024) and it will take top billing at the United Nations General Assembly. To set the tone for all the discussion, the Lancet has published a series of four papers reviewing the problem and laying out some of the solutions. For the series, the One Health Trust’s Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan brought together experts from around the world to address the issue.
Dr. Iruka Okeke of the Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria helped write the first of these papers. Dr. Okeke, a bacterial geneticist, points out that antimicrobial-resistant infections can happen anywhere – in hospital patients, in people leading their everyday lives, in farm animals, and in nature among wildlife.
more...and audio at this link:
https://onehealthtrust.org/news-media/podcasts/the-stubborn-germs-that-are-getting-the-upper-hand/