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A new study reveals a certain type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria might have got worse thanks to covid. Luckily our UVC disinfection units kill off bacteria and viruses and more - no matter how resistant to antibiotics they’ve become. Here’s the story, courtesy of New Scientist magazine.
How antibiotic resistance shot up thanks to covid
Streptococcus pneumoniae lives in our throats naturally and doesn’t bother most people. In some it can cause pneumonia along with nasty life-threatening blood infections called septicaemia, especially in the vulnerable, very young, and old.
Computer-modelled research suggests that while Europe’s lockdowns drove a drop in cases of people suffering a pneumonia-causing bacterium from 2019 to 2020, at the same time the proportion of antibiotic resistant cases shot up.
It looks like lockdowns, changes to antibiotic prescriptions from 2019 to 2020, and covid itself all worked to impact the spread of S. Pneumonia outside of hospitals, and also helped it become more resistant to antibiotics.
The same could have happened with other bacteria, but we don’t know yet. Scientists would have to run a set of different computer models to see if bacteria like E- coli, which mostly spreads via contaminated food, has also become more resistant. But it’s entirely possible.
Why antibiotic resistance is so dangerous to humanity
Antimicrobial resistance poses a significant threat to humanity. At the moment it is a leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 3,500 of us daily. Over 1.2 million official deaths took place because of it in 2019, probably many millions more. And the resistance is not limited to bacteria. It also enables awful pathogens like highly-resistant Candida auris, the source of severe fungal infections.
Top ten list of antibiotic resistant threats
Here’s the top ten, well worth avoiding and all potentially lethal.
UVC disinfection tech kills antibiotic-resistant threats
Antibiotic resistance is already a horror story, and it could easily get a lot worse. Thankfully our UVC disinfection units make short work of destroying the RNA and DNA inside these pathogens no matter what level of antibiotic resistance they’ve developed, leaving them unable to reproduce, killing them and therefore stopping them in their tracks.
If you’d like to play a vital part in preventing these already-resistant diseases from developing into something truly terrifying, let’s talk.