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Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?

Antimicrobial resistance - the next pandemic?

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All around the world, people, plants and animals are dying from infections that cannot be treated – even with the best medicines available. 

That is because of the rise in antimicrobial resistance - the increasing failure of antibiotics and other life-saving drugs to treat diseases. 

It is a global problem that threatens to be the cause of the next pandemic, as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Chief Veterinary Officer Keith Sumption explains to FAO’s Charlotta Lomas.  

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Charlotta Lomas, FAO
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CDC/Alissa Eckert, James Archer