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Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over drug-resistant bacteria
Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over the rise of drug-resistant ‘nightmare bacteria’.
The number of infections by drug-resistant, “nightmare bacteria” rose by almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023 in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s national public health agency. The CDC researchers also did not have access to data from some of the US’s most populated areas, including California, Florida, New York and Texas, meaning the absolute number of US infections “is definitely underestimated”, Burnham said. Europe: Investigations show that southern European countries such as Greece, Italy and Turkiye report more frequent “nightmare bacteria” cases than northern nations, where strong infection control measures and antibiotic stewardship programmes tend to be more robust.
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