In the world of public health, climate change and antibiotic resistance are often included among the most serious and urgent threats to human health. Now, a new study finds the two phenomena may be more closely related than previously thought.
Antibiotic-resistant infections kill 23,000 people in the US and sicken two million each year, and the problem is getting worse, warns a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency ranks 18 microorganisms according to their threat to health and the economy, and categorizes three as urgent.