Decades of conflict in Iraq have fueled 'catastrophic' rise in antibioticresistance, warn experts GlobalHealthBMJ
Decades of wars and conflict in Iraq have led to a"catastrophic" rise in antibiotic resistance in the country, with serious implications for the entire region and the world, warn international experts in the open access journalThe combination of destroyed health care infrastructure, medicine shortages, limited resources, high levels of heavy metal contamination, andAntibiotic resistance, or AMR for short, is rising globally at an alarming rate and is expected to cause 10 million...
War has been implicated in the emergence of AMR as far back as the 1940s, but has received little attention, say the authors. "Contemporary conflicts, waged in urban and industrialized landscapes, pressure microbes with selective environments that contain unique combinations and concentrations of toxic heavy metals and antibiotics, while simultaneously providing niches and dissemination routes for microbial pathogens," the authors write.
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