New research suggests that decreasing air pollution could also help to decrease antibiotic resistance among bacteria by 17%. — dpaBut air pollution’s impact could be worse than previously thought, according to research investigating how it spreads resistance to antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance is feared to be killing at least half a million, and potentially up to 6.5 million people, worldwide every year, with around two-thirds of them in Asia.medical journal, the team, which included University of Cambridge researchers from the United Kingdom, went through data from 116 countries between 2000 and 2018.
They warned that antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals or livestock farming “could be transmitted to sewage treatment facilities or ecosystems, and could even be emitted from these settings into the atmosphere and be exposed to humans through inhalation”.