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Over three million children died in 2022 due to drug resistance: Study

In the report, the scientific group ESCMID said more than 752,000 children in Southeast Asia and 659,000 in Africa died due to complications linked to the infections [File: Reuters]

More than three million children, many of them from Southeast Asia and Africa, are believed to have lost their lives in 2022 due to infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a new research.

“The study underscores the urgent need for both regional and global strategies to combat pediatric AMR,” the report released in Austria on Sunday said, referring to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) infections.

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