Investigación original / Original research
Rev Panam Salud Publica 35(1), 2014
BMC Public Health (2016) 16:766
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3455-5
Antibiotics use with care
The era of effective antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a few generations, many “miracle medicines”have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were intended to eradicate. Bacteria quickly adapt to the presence of antibacterial agents in order ...to survive. The misuse of antibiotics,which is an international problem, only exacerbates the steady evolution of resistance. In August 2010, the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases posed the question "Is this the end of antibiotics?" documentingthe rapid spread of multidrug-resistant bacteriaand predicting that 10 years remain in the useful life of many agents.
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WHO Regional Office for Africa
Response strategy for South Sudan to Covid-19 pandemic
Published: April 26, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176004
first issued 18 August 2022
J Hepatol (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2017.03.021
The number of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone is declining, despite the outbreak continuing to claim lives. New cases have dropped to around 9-12 per week, according to recent WHO figures. There were over 500 cases per week at the height of the crisis around late November 2014.
The impact on t...he lives of the thousands of people directly affected by the disease has been devastating. It has caused substantial suffering to many others, leaving the population very vulnerable.
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