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Antibiotics

June 2026

  • Egyptian children drink and wash in water from a hand pump in Qalyoubia village north of Cairo July 28, 2009.

    The world needs clean water to help fight antimicrobial resistance

  • Pigs on a farm

    Antibiotics use in livestock could rise by a third in next 15 years, UN report warns

May 2026

  • Salmonella bacteria as seen through a microscope

    Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says

    Experts say climate change linked to 10% rise in salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023

March 2026

  • Aerial view of green-coloured water around a pier on the lough's shore

    ‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake

  • Should you take antibiotics for a cold and what could be the impact?This is a photo of packets of antibiotics. See PA Feature HEALTH Antibiotics. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA feature HEALTH Antibiotics. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Alamy/PA. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany HEALTH Antibiotics.

    Antibiotics need coordinated G7 investment

January 2026

  • Packaged beef for sale

    Antibiotic use in US meat production jumped 16% in 2024, report shows

    Shift raises concerns of increase in antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’, which sicken millions of people annually

December 2025

  • Scientist working in a laboratory

    The Guardian view on antibiotics: recent breakthroughs are great news, but humanity is losing the bigger race

    Editorial: Our magic bullets are increasingly rare and ineffective. The golden age of discovery is over and the way we develop and use drugs needs to change
  • Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of scientists to question how critically lithium mining is damaging the delicate ecosystem and impacting Indigenous communities

    Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth

    Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of scientists to question how critically lithium mining is damaging the delicate ecosystem and impacting Indigenous communities
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  • Professor Cristina Dorador searches for life-saving antibiotics in the salt flat of the Atacama, Chile

    Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth – documentary

    Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of scientists to question how critically lithium mining is damaging the delicate ecosystem and impacting Indigenous communities

November 2025

  • FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2008 file photo, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonies from a Seattle hospital patient grow in a blood agar plate at a local lab in Seattle. Health officials say 1 out of every 7 infections that patients pick up in the hospital is from supergerms resistant to antibiotics. The bugs include the staph infection MRSA, and five other bacteria impervious to many kinds of antibiotics. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times via AP) SEATTLE OUT; USA TODAY OUT; MAGS OUT; TELEVISION OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT TO BOTH THE SEATTLE TIMES AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER

    EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears

    Use of 8m pounds of antibiotics and antifungals a year leads to superbugs and damages human health, lawsuit claims
  • Diego Menjíbar ReynésJoy Lewa, head nurse at KEMRI, visits a newborn diagnosed with sepsis who had to be given second-line treatment after the first-line therapy did not show positive results.

    Antibiotic resistance: how a pioneering trial is using old drugs to save babies from sepsis

    The infection is responsible for 800,000 newborn deaths each year, but clinics in eight countries are working together to find new treatments
  • A petri dish with bacteria growing on orange agar jelly

    Deaths linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs rose 17% in England in 2024

    Data also shows an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases of antibiotic-resistant infections a week last year

October 2025

  • Devi Sridhar

    double quotation markBeef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over

    Devi Sridhar
    Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
  • A lab technician takes a sample from a white substance on a petri dish

    Opinion
    double quotation mark‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’

    Dr Manica Balasegaram
    Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not
  • E coli bacteria

    Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

    Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

August 2025

  • Illustration of a drug-dispensing petrol pump

    The big idea
    Why antibiotics are like fossil fuels

  • Injured Palestinian girl in a hospital bed, a woman looks on

    ‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic-resistant disease

July 2025

  • FILE PHOTO: MRSA bacteria strain is seen in a petri dish in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin<br>FILE PHOTO: MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria strain is seen in a petri dish containing agar jelly for bacterial culture in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin March 1, 2008. MRSA is a drug-resistant "superbug", which can cause deadly infections. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo

    Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show

  • A health worker administers the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M to a child at the comprehensive Health Centre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

    ‘Delay is catastrophic’: how simple solutions could save thousands of African children in comas

May 2025

  • Photo of packets of antibiotics

    Tell us: what have you never quite understood about antibiotics?

    In a new video series on our It’s Complicated Youtube channel, we’re on a mission to untangle confusing everyday topics by speaking directly with experts
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