{"id":132282,"date":"2025-10-19T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132282\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:33:08","slug":"who-one-in-five-african-infections-now-resistant-to-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132282\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: One in Five African Infections Now Resistant to Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"textearticle\" style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">&#13;<\/p>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Over 70% of key bacteria resist standard treatments in Africa<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WHO urges urgent action to prevent global health crisis<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"textearticle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antibiotic resistance now affects one in five infections across Africa, surpassing the global average, where one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are resistant to standard treatments, according to the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) 2025 Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report identifies antibiotic resistance as a rapidly escalating global threat, especially in Africa. Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae pose the greatest threat. More than 70% of African strains of these bacteria are now resistant to third-generation cephalosporins, a powerful class of antibiotics considered the standard treatment for bloodstream infections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This trend is severely limiting treatment options, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where last-resort antibiotics are often unavailable. The trend is already a major concern among African health experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.N. health agency is urging stronger laboratory capacity, responsible antibiotic use, and closer collaboration across sectors to avert a global health crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textearticle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ayi Renaud Dossavi<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Over 70% of key bacteria resist standard treatments in Africa &#13; WHO urges urgent action to prevent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[4204,12998,1669,18,13676,135,19,23309,17,12273,1702],"class_list":{"0":"post-132282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-antibiotics","10":"tag-bacteria","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-global","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-infections","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-resistance","18":"tag-standard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}