Researchers Linked More Than 1 Million Deaths In Africa In 2019 To Antimicrobial Resistance, Study Finds

Healio (1/4, Feller) reports, “Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.” Notably, “of the estimated 3.83 million infection-related deaths in Africa that year, 1.86 million were linked to 33 priority bacterial pathogens in the region and 1.05 million deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance.” The findings were published in The Lancet Global Health.