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India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways

India-UK team tackles antimicrobial resistance spread in waterways

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"This project has huge potential because it will study AMR spread in a more quantitative and predictive manner, which is urgently needed for assessing environmental exposure risk"
Pic: Mohammed Mubashir/CC BY-SA (https:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

British and Indian experts are joining forces to investigate the impact that releasing antibiotics from antibiotic manufacturing into India’s waterways has on the spread of potentially fatal drug-resistant infections.

An estimated 58,000 babies die in India every year from superbug infections passed on from their mothers, whilst drug resistant pathogens cause between 28,000 to 38,000 extra deaths in the European Union every year.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute