There are 1.3 million annual deaths worldwide due to antibiotic resistance. Behind these numbers published in February in The Lancet, hides another reality, just as brutal: one in five people who die because they have not been able to be treated for an infection is a child under 5 years old. In sub-Saharan Africa, this number reaches more than half. Babies are also particularly vulnerable. In 2019, 140,000 newborns died of bacterial resistance to antimicrobials.
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