By Fran Kritz
World leaders approved a political declaration during the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The declaration includes several targets and actions aimed at combating AMR, including reducing the estimated 4.95 million human deaths associated with resistance annually by 10% by 2030.
“In the century since Alexander Fleming stumbled across penicillin in a laboratory in London, antibiotics have become a mainstay of medicine,