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August 24, 2023

How bees can monitor pollution for us – everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance

Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University; Kara Fry, Macquarie University, and Max M Gillings, Macquarie University

Using bees as biomonitors can be a more sensitive and effective way of detecting contaminants than traditional sampling methods, new research shows.

Antimicrobial resistance is now a leading cause of death worldwide due to drug-resistant infections, including drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, pneumonia and Staph infections like the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus shown here. (NIAID, cropped from original)

June 4, 2023

Removing antimicrobial resistance from the WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’ will leave humanity extremely vulnerable to future pandemics

Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, York University, Canada

Drug-resistant microbes are a serious threat for future pandemics, but the new draft of the WHO’s international pandemic agreement may not include provisions for antimicrobial resistance.

Sub-Saharan African countries don’t have enough wastewater treatment plants. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images

May 24, 2023

Wastewater is a valuable source of information – Africa’s scientists need to use it to find drug‑resistant bacteria

Akebe Luther King Abia, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Afsatou Ndama Traore, University of Venda, and Natasha Potgieter, University of Venda

Wastewater treatment plants receive wastewater from a variety of sources. This makes them useful proxies for determining the burden of antimicrobial resistance in communities.

May 8, 2022

Antibiotic use in Uganda is high: action is needed

Freddy Eric Kitutu, Makerere University and Reuben Kiggundu

Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.

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