Antimicrobial Resistance – The Silent Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1192
Antimicrobial Resistance – The Silent Crisis – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1192 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1192 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Shvets Credit: Gustavo Fring Preamble Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is no longer a distant possibility; it is already here. According to the WHO, drug-resistant infections are increasingly undermining medical progress worldwide. Every year, more than a million lives are lost because once-reliable antibiotics and other antimicrobials are failing. Worse still, without concerted global action, that number is set to rise dramatically. AMR is not just a public-health concern: it’s a signal of deep structural weaknesses in how we produce, deploy, commercialize, regulate, and steward antimicrobial drugs. It calls for a wholesale rethin...