Increased antibiotics use in combating the COVID-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization said Monday. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a “worrying number” of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicines traditionally used to treat them. The UN […]
A lack of awareness among consumers and the careless attitude of a large section of physicians have turned many lifesaving “antibiotic” drugs into silent killers. Unfortunately, antibiotic’s resistance has been rising dangerously to high levels globally; constituting one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development. A growing number of infections such […]
Resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest threats to modern health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Speaking during an address to mark the World Antibiotic awareness week on Wednesday in Abuja, WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said that many antibiotics were being used unnecessarily for mild infections, helping to […]