Drug-resistant superbugs: Ukraine's other wartime enemy
The Hindu
Ukrainian soldier faces antibiotic-resistant bacteria after war injuries, highlighting the global threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Ukrainian soldier Anton Sushko, severely wounded, thought he was finally safe when he spotted a rescue team after crawling for hours through the battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
"That's it, I thought, here are the guys... We made it. Wounded, but alive," the 40-year-old recalled from his hospital bed in Dnipro, southeastern Ukraine.
But Sushko wasn't out of danger yet.
By the time he escaped, a wound on his left leg had got infected with aggressive bacteria resistant to antibiotics, making it harder for doctors to treat him.
Thousands of other soldiers have, like him, come back from the front with wounds festering with multidrug-resistant organisms, pointing to a little-understood cost of the war.
Bacteria have long developed resistance against medicines designed to fight them, rendering many drugs useless.
The process known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) directly causes over a million deaths and contributes to five million deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization.
Ukrainian soldier faces antibiotic-resistant bacteria after war injuries, highlighting the global threat of antimicrobial resistance.
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