In the quiet arithmetic of modern medicine, a silent erosion is underway: the very tools that transformed bacterial infection from a death sentence into a manageable inconvenience are losing their power. Antimicrobial resistance — shaped by decades of overuse in clinics and farms alike — now claims nearly five million lives annually, a figure the WHO warns could reach 39 million by 2050. The deaths of a three-month-old infant in Jakarta and a 25-year-old woman whose lungs could no longer be saved are not anomalies but early signals of a world in which routine infections may once again become u
When Antibiotics Fail: Inside the Growing Crisis of Drug-Resistant Infections
A 3-month-old infant died from antibiotic-resistant sepsis; a 25-year-old cystic fibrosis patient died from untreatable bacterial infection despite experimental phage therapy.