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Against 304 carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii isolates from six countries, the experimental drug zosurabalpin kept low MICs — including against metallo-beta-lactamase producers. This is laboratory data, not a cure.
Most infections end when the immune system clears them. A few have evolved ways to hide, integrate or persist — which is why they can last a lifetime, and why 'cure' means something different for each.
Resistance is not something your body develops. It is an evolutionary property of bacteria, spread on mobile pieces of DNA — and it was already linked to nearly 5 million deaths a year before the forecasts began.
Sepsis is the body's own response to an infection turning against its organs. It kills an estimated 11 million people a year, and the evidence keeps pointing to how fast it is caught and treated.
A new GBD analysis puts sepsis-related deaths at 21.4 million, roughly double the 11.0 million estimated for 2017 — a change driven partly by COVID-19 and partly by a different method.