Resistant Bacteria Are Advancing Faster Than Antibiotics (wired.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/1524248/resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics/
> The [2]report reveals that, between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent. According to data reported by more than 100 countries to WHO's Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), one in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, all related to various common diseases globally.
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> For the first time, this edition of the report includes prevalence estimates of resistance to 22 antibiotics used to treat urinary tract, gastrointestinal, bloodstream, and gonorrheal conditions. The analysis focused on eight common pathogens: Acinetobacter spp, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, non-typhoidal Salmonella spp, Shigella spp, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The results show that resistant gram-negative bacteria pose the greatest threat. Of particular note are Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, which are associated with bloodstream infections that can lead to sepsis, organ failure, and death. "More than 40 percent of E. coli and more than 55 percent of K. pneumoniae strains worldwide are now resistant to third-generation cephalosporins, the first-choice treatment for these types of infections," the report warns.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/resistant-bacteria-are-advancing-faster-than-antibiotics/
[2] https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide
Artificial (Score:2)
I thought AI already had this problem solved?
Cocktails? (Score:1)
Bacteria have to evolve fairly elaborate strategies around many of the antibiotics (AB). For example, a process that took a bacterium 2 steps may require 5 as a work-around to a given AB: a "long-cut". It seems to me a cocktail of multiple AB's would slow down the offensive work done by bacteria by forcing them to expand lots of energy to work around multiple AB's. It wouldn't just be one long-cut the bacterium has to take, but several: tax them from multiple angles like what red states accuse blue states o
No surprise (Score:2)
This has been predicted for a long, long time. Fixes are also known for a long, long time: Fix your damn broken health system that gives antibiotics for everything and stop using antibiotics for animals to improve yield.
What, greed is more important? Well, then keep dying. More and more.
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What we do is irrelevant in the long term because antibiotic-resistant bugs will evolve in other countries which don't care. We might stop antibiotic-resistant bugs evolving here but the new ones will soon arrive on an airliner.
This was always going to be a perpetual arms race and we're no longer competent enough to develop new arms in the race.
Shouldn't have circumcised those babies (Score:2)
Oh wait that's autism. Anyway I'm sure we can treat it all with colloidal silver and or horse dewormer.
Anyone notice how triggered the right wing gets when you talk about horse dewormer?
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> Anyone notice how triggered the right wing gets when you talk about horse dewormer?
Yep. Including the most excessively dumb ones that will claim that was the right recommendation and that it works just fine.
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Come to think of it, I wonder whether there are already databases that estimate how easy each individual is to manipulate and how unable to fact-check. For the loud assholes, that would be easy to do. Obviously, the smart ones are in real danger, see the purges that Stalin did.
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If it's good enough for the president it should be good enough for anyone.
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Interesting, ivermectin might indeed be an answer: [1]https://www.nature.com/article... [nature.com]
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711