{"id":22595,"date":"2020-09-10T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/superbugs-a-far-greater-risk-than-covid-in-pacific-scientist-warns"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:34:58","slug":"superbugs-a-far-greater-risk-than-covid-in-pacific-scientist-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22595","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Superbugs&#8217; a far greater risk than Covid in Pacific, scientist warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antimicrobial resistance \u2018biggest human health threat, bar none\u2019, says Australian research director ahead of three-year study in Fiji<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/01\/who-warns-overuse-of-antibiotics-for-covid-19-will-cause-more-deaths\">antimicrobial resistance<\/a> (AMR), including drug-resistant bacteria, or \u201csuperbugs\u201d, pose far greater risks to human health than Covid-19, threatening to put modern medicine \u201cback into the dark ages\u201d,<strong> <\/strong>an Australian scientist has warned, ahead of a three-year study into drug-resistant bacteria in Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you thought Covid was bad, you don\u2019t want anti-microbial resistance,\u201d Dr Paul De Barro, biosecurity research director at Australia\u2019s national science agency, the CSIRO, told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/superbugs-a-far-greater-risk-than-covid-in-pacific-scientist-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antimicrobial resistance \u2018biggest human health threat, bar none\u2019, says Australian research director ahead of three-year study in FijiThe emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including drug-resistant bacteria, or \u201csuperbugs\u201d, pose far greater ri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,436,914,512,916,874,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-pacific-islands","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22596,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22595\/revisions\/22596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}