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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke International security correspondent

‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease

Injured Palestinian girl in a hospital bed, a woman looks on
Liyam Mohammed Juma Abu Rizk, nine, who was injured by Israeli bombings, receives medical treatment at Nasser hospital in Gaza Strip in July. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Gaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, research has revealed.

Medical supplies are desperately scarce and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the 22-month war, while many others have been weakened by malnutrition, so the high levels of drug-resistant bacteria will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said.

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