Human kind has another epidemic brewing as numerous infections are becoming immune to antibiotics. Minor injuries that were once treatable will once again become the bane of our existence leading to mass-deaths in the time to come.
This phenomenon is called Antibiotic resistance or in other words Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) infections, which are expected to kill approximately 300 million human beings globally by 2050, as the misuse of antibiotics has made many organisms immune to them.
According to worldwide reports, 700,000 deaths are already claimed each year by the deadly AMRs. This discrepancy is also found in Pakistan now, due to the abuse of antibiotics by humans, administration in animals and in the production of food.
The bacteria that could once be killed off with low potency antibiotics now require greater and high potency drugs to be done with; to which scientists have speculated that soon enough, bacteria and infections are going to be immune to them.
When antibiotics stop work, patients are going to be stuck in a vicious cycle of treatments which are going to lead to more expensive and toxic antibiotics; [already harboring] the resistant infections would cause death in the carriers.
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