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‘Every blast is an open wound’: how the chaos of war breeds deadly superbugs that spread around the world

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par Christine Carson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia

The war in Gaza will leave its mark in many ways, long after the recently negotiated ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

One legacy relates to how the chaos of war provides the perfect storm for the rise in antimicrobial resistance.

This is when microbes evolve to withstand the medicines designed to kill them. These microbes turn into superbugs, rendering previously effective treatments ineffective, and…

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