Superbug, A hidden disaster: Lancet

 Superbug kill 1.3 million people globally every year.  The study has been published in medical Journal " The Lancet" . According to the first study to measure as against estimate the burden of drug- resistance microbes superbugs kill around 1.3 million people globally every year .  

Traditional antibiotics and anti-fungal medications are increasingly failing to act on the bugs affecting people. To track this phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance,  university of oxford and the institute of health matrices and evaluation studied 471 million actual individual records isolates from 204 countries to work out the death burden.  

The study of hospitalisations from Covid-19 has possible accelerated the burden of AMR(antimicrobial resistance) as most patients were prescribed antibiotics. 

In India a five-day course of common antibiotics.  Such as doxycycline or amoxicillin was given to several Covid patients. 

This study is important because it has for the first time found the burden of AMR in terms of mortality. It also found an alarming burden in south Asia.

What is superbug ?

ANS. superbugs are strains of bacteria,  viruses, parasites and fungi that are resistant ti most of the antibiotics and other medications commonly used to treat infections they cause.