{"id":182997,"date":"2024-02-18T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/global-project-to-drive-lifesaving-agreement-on-appropriate-antimicrobial-drug-use"},"modified":"2024-02-18T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:23:59","slug":"global-project-to-drive-lifesaving-agreement-on-appropriate-antimicrobial-drug-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/global-project-to-drive-lifesaving-agreement-on-appropriate-antimicrobial-drug-use","title":{"rendered":"Global project to drive lifesaving agreement on appropriate antimicrobial drug use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/global-project-to-drive-lifesaving-agreement-on-appropriate-antimicrobial-drug-use.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Melbourne researchers are leading a new push to address the growing harm of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as more humans and animals become seriously ill or die from infections that medicine once treated easily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over-use and misuse of microbe-killing drugs \u2013 including antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals \u2013 is the main driver accelerating the evolution of resistance to these drugs in bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/antimicrobial-resistance\">World Health Organisation<\/a> calls AMR a top global public health threat that <strong>was directly responsible for 1.27 million deaths and contributed to 4.95 million deaths in 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Melbourne researchers are leading a new push to address the growing harm of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as more humans and animals become seriously ill or die from infections that medicine once treated easily. Over-use and misuse of microbe-killing drugs \u2013 including antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals \u2013 is the main driver accelerating the evolution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}