Humanity's war against drug-resistant microbes is not going very well.

Antibiotic resistance has rapidly become one of our species' leading causes of death, claiming an estimated 5 million lives globally in 2019. That already exceeds the yearly death toll from HIV / AIDS or malaria , and the danger of drug-resistant infections is only expected to grow.

According to a new study, these so-called superbugs can also be alarmingly prevalent in newborn babies, to the point that frontline treatments for sepsis are no longer effective against the majority of bacterial infections.

Researchers focused on Southeast Asia for the new study, analyzing nearly 15,000 blood samples collected from sick infants at 10 hospitals across five regional countries in 2019 and 2020.

Most infections they f

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