Across nearly every nation on Earth, the drugs humanity relies upon to defeat bacterial infection are being consumed in ways that hasten their own obsolescence. A landmark study in The Lancet Public Health has found that 99 percent of countries overuse the very antibiotics reserved for resistant infections, while patients who most need those medicines go without them. The paradox is as old as scarcity itself: the powerful consume what the vulnerable require, and in doing so, diminish what remains for everyone. The WHO's 2030 target offers a narrow corridor toward correction, but only if govern
Global antibiotic overuse fuels superbug crisis as 99% of nations exceed 'watch' drug targets
Patients with life-threatening drug-resistant infections risk inadequate treatment due to misallocation of reserve antibiotics and global overuse patterns.