33,000 People Died As A Direct Consequence Of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Infections

According to a recent study, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is prevalent throughout Europe and 670,000 people in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) get afflicted with antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year. According to the study around 33,000 people died as a direct consequence of antibiotic resistant bacteria infections.

As per a research (read below) by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, almost 33,000 individuals perished as a direct result of these diseases.

The findings were founded on antimicrobial resistance information from invasive isolates submitted to the Central Asian and European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (CAESAR) and European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) networks in 2021. (data referring to 2020).

EARS-Net got statistics from 29 countries, comprising all from the EU and two from the EEA (Iceland and Norway...

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