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The thread centers on contrasting the intense public-health focus on Ebola with concerns that antibiotic resistance is being neglected despite ongoing large-scale deaths from drug-resistant bacterial infections. The initial post raises questions about preparedness and resource allocation, citing CDC/ECDC figures for infections and deaths and noting major mortality from bacterial pneumonia, but provides no follow-up answers in the snippet beyond reactions to the shock of the claim. Overall sentiment is alarmed/critical, emphasizing that antibiotic resistance warrants “all hands on deck” attention similar to Ebola.
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"It's all hands on deck, 24/7, for Ebola," one prominent federal health official told me during the hysteria, but "we're ignoring antibiotic resistance."
Yet, each year, more than 5 million people in the U.S. and Europe become infected with serious, resistant bacterial infections across the globe, with at least 48,000 of those people dying as a direct result of these infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Globally, the bacteria responsible are growing increasingly resistant to these treatments. And more than 2 million children, mostly in the undeveloped world, die each year of bacterial pneumonia alone.
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