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@DrTedros "Last week, more than 60% of all reported cases and deaths from #COVID19 globally were once again in Europe. The sheer number of cases is translating to unsustainable pressure on health systems and exhausted #healthworkers"-@DrTedros
✨🆕 IHME researchers published today in @sciencedirect – "Estimating the population at high risk for tuberculosis through household exposure in high-incidence countries: a model-based analysis" using #TB data from the 2019 #GBDstudy. #tuberculosis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The researchers estimate that in 20 high-incidence countries, 38 million individuals live in a household with someone with pulmonary #tuberculosis — with children under 5 making up 12% of populations with home exposure.
➡️Findings include: #Zimbabwe, #Mozambique, #Zambia, and #Pakistan have the highest proportion of the population with household exposure.
#WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek starts today!
#AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) can affect everyone, everywhere, at any age. 👀 Watch & listen to our expert explaining why you should care about it!
Spread awareness, stop resistance👉bit.ly/3njQQ3g
#AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) can affect everyone, everywhere, at any age. 👀 Watch & listen to our expert explaining why you should care about it!
Spread awareness, stop resistance👉bit.ly/3njQQ3g
What are 'antimicrobials'❓
Antimicrobials – including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals & antiparasitics – are medicines 💊 used to prevent & treat infections in humans, animals & plants.
More info 👉bit.ly/3cjwlNQ #AntimicrobialResistance
Antimicrobials – including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals & antiparasitics – are medicines 💊 used to prevent & treat infections in humans, animals & plants.
More info 👉bit.ly/3cjwlNQ #AntimicrobialResistance
#AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) occurs when
🔸 bacteria
🔸 viruses
🔸 fungi
🔸 parasites
no longer respond to medicines,
🚨 making infections harder to treat
🚨 increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness & death.
More info 👉bit.ly/3njQQ3g
🔸 bacteria
🔸 viruses
🔸 fungi
🔸 parasites
no longer respond to medicines,
🚨 making infections harder to treat
🚨 increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness & death.
More info 👉bit.ly/3njQQ3g
As we close out a fearsome week of the #covid19 pandemic and also #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek, the thread below is more relevant than ever.
I hope we've learned from all this that when public health experts alert us to ticking time bombs like these, we should *listen*up*.
I hope we've learned from all this that when public health experts alert us to ticking time bombs like these, we should *listen*up*.
On @WHO's Food Safety Day, my colleague @orthostichy summarized the link between animal agriculture and #antimicrobialresistance.
All signs point to a public health crisis on the horizon — one that won't be solved with a "quick fix" like a vaccine. gfi.org/food-safety-day
All signs point to a public health crisis on the horizon — one that won't be solved with a "quick fix" like a vaccine. gfi.org/food-safety-day
I've tweeted on this topic before. This thread from April compiles what I see as greatest public health hazards associated w/ animal ag:
- zoonotic disease risk
- antibiotic resistance risk
- hazards to communities living near animal farming operations
- zoonotic disease risk
- antibiotic resistance risk
- hazards to communities living near animal farming operations
