One in six bacterial infections worldwide is now resistant to standard treatments, according to anew report from the World Health Organization (WHO) that identified an alarming global rise in infections that no longer respond to antibiotics.
This phenomenon is known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and it occurs when bacteria and other pathogens – causing infections of the blood, gut, urinary tract, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), among others – evolve to the point where standard antibiotics can no longer control them.
