A recent study found that the effectiveness of antibiotics utilized to treat common children’s illnesses is declining over time.
Per the report released in the journal The Lancet Regional Health—Southeast Asia, several of the antibiotics commonly used to cure illnesses like meningitis, pneumonia, and sepsis (bloodstream infections), among the infections that children frequently develop, have become fewer than fifty percent effective.
Southeast Asia and the Pacific region, which includes Indonesia and the Philippines, are the most severely impacted by this decreased efficacy. Additionally, the effectiveness of antibiotics is declining in the US.
“It is already having an impact on Americans. “This has been called a silent pandemic,” said André O. Hudson, a biochemistry professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.