Reacción a "A WHO report warns that one in six confirmed bacterial infections in 2023 was resistant to antibiotics"

The WHO’s global report on antibiotic resistance calls for a “One Health” approach linking human, animal, and environmental health. But most of the data still comes from hospitals and clinics, focusing on human infections caused by bacteria like E. coli and Klebsiella. The findings are worrying as resistance continues to rise and treatments are failing.

But there’s a major blind spot. Antibiotic resistance isn’t limited to hospitals, and it doesn’t only spread through harmful bacteria. It can also be carried by harmless microbes found in animals, water, soil, and even within our own bodies. These microbes act as silent carriers, passing resistance genes to more dangerous bacteria. That means they play a critical role in the spread of resistance, even if they don’t cause disease themselves.

By only looking at the microbes that make people sick, we’re ignoring the bigger network that helps resistance spread. The WHO’s Tricycle survey aims to track resistant E. coli across people, animals, and the environment. But most of the data still comes from human health. To truly tackle antibiotic resistance, we need to pay attention to the microbes we usually overlook."