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Business NewsNewsIndiaCan Kerala's antibiotic abuse project inspire India's antimicrobial resistance fight?..
AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and cease to respond to drugs, making infections harder to treat and increasing the chances of illness severity and even death...
In 2019, nearly 300,000 deaths in India were due to AMR..
However, analysts say that Keralas approach might not be directly applicable to other states, where access to antibiotics is itself an issue...
When Ajith KS, a health inspector at a family health centre (FHC) in Palakkad, Kerala, and his colleagues fanned out to tell the local community about the dangers of the inappropriate use of antibiotics, this was a typical response from many residents, who bristled at their intervention..
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