The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded an urgent alarm on the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) , revealing that one in six bacterial infections confirmed in laboratories worldwide in 2023 was resistant to antibiotic treatment . The findings, published in the new Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report 2025 , indicate that resistance levels are increasing rapidly, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where access to diagnosis and effective treatment remains limited.

Between 2018 and 2023 , resistance rose in over 40% of the pathogen-antibiotic combinations tracked by WHO, with annual increases of 5–15% on average — a pace that threatens to outstrip advances in modern medicine. The report draws on data from over 100 cou

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