Daijiworld Media Network – Geneva

Geneva, Oct 13: A new World Health Organization (WHO) report has raised alarms over the growing threat of antibiotic resistance worldwide, revealing that one in six bacterial infections in 2023 could not be treated with available antibiotics. The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Report 2025, launched on Monday, shows that resistance is spreading faster than medicine can keep up.

Between 2018 and 2023, resistance increased in more than 40 percent of monitored bacteria–antibiotic combinations, rising annually by 5–15 percent. The report, which for the first time provides resistance estimates across 22 commonly used antibiotics, analysed eight major pathogens responsible for urinary tract, gastrointestinal, bloodstream infections, and gonorrhoe

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