Just as humankind has learned to fight off pathogens — through strategy like sanitation and medicine — those pathogen are learning to fight back . Some contagion are now getting harder to treat , as many microbes have evolved way to survive the drugs that antecedently beat out them with relief . concord to a recentstudy , antibiotic - resistant bacterial infection contributed to the death of nearly 5 million citizenry worldwide in 2019 . But it ’s not just bacteria that are becoming resistant ; some viruses and fungi have also become harder to treat in late years . Here are five of the most concerning superbugs sickening people now .
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Cases of highly resistant “super gonorrhea” have been reported in recent years.Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (CC BY-NC 2.0)
