The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that antibiotic resistance is accelerating at a concerning pace, faster than medical science can respond, and posing serious threat to global health.
A new ‘Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025’ launched by WHO on Monday showed that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments.
Between 2018 and 2023, it found that antibiotic resistance rose in over 40 percent of the pathogen, antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual increase of 5–15 percent.