Antibiotic-resistant infections are killing growing numbers of newborns

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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