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Increasing threat of animal-to-human diseases – and antibiotic resistance in both – ring alarm bells at international conference
02/02/2018
Zoonotic diseases and misuse of antibiotics in animals and humans resulting in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are converging in Asia-Pacific countries with potential deadly effects, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today.
In Berlin, FAO and partners call for reduced use of antimicrobial drugs
19/01/2018
People take medicines to cure infections or diseases caused by microorganisms. But what happens when the disease-causing germs don’t react, because they’ve become resistant to that drug?
FAO partners with Swedish university in fight against antimicrobial resistance
12/01/2018
Antimicrobial resistance threatens to thrust the world into a post-antibiotic era where today’s life-saving medicines fail. Slowing the development of drug-resistant microbes is the aim of a new partnership between FAO and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Strengthen laboratory capacity in Southeast Asia to detect antimicrobial residue in food product
04/01/2018
Antimicrobials play a critical role to treat diseases for aquaculture and livestock, contributing to assure food safety and quality. However, misuse or overuse antimicrobials in aquaculture can be left in aqualtic products, in water and environment resulting in over and [...]
Preserving effectiveness of antimicrobials through safe, prudent use
06/12/2017
Antimicrobials are essential in treating human and animal infectious diseases. However, misuse and overuse of antimicrobials result in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) which make them less or ineffective at treating diseases. AMR has now been recognized as a significant threat to [...]
High level Tripartite Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance to be held in Cambodia
27/11/2017
International and national animal and public health; and environment experts will gather in Phnom Penh for the fifth time to discuss the action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Cambodia.
Indonesia Raising Awareness on Antimicrobial Resistance
23/11/2017
This year’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) just ended on 19 November 2017. FAO ECTAD Indonesia, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) of the Republic Indonesia and other related stakeholders successfully held several events which aimed to raise people’s [...]
La FAO accompagne les acteurs nationaux du secteur alimentaire dans la lutte contre la résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM)
23/11/2017
La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) intervient lorsque des bactéries, des virus, des parasites et des champignons développent une résistance aux médicaments qui avaient été auparavant utilisés pour les traiter. Selon une étude récente, chaque année, environ 700 000 décès sont [...]
More countries acting to combat antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture
17/11/2017
Efforts to confront the spread of antimicrobial resistant pathogens on farms and in food systems are gathering momentum, thanks to strong backing by governments and technical support that is boosting national capacities to respond to the problem, FAO said today. [...]
FAO celebra en la Región de América Latina y el Caribe la "Semana Mundial de Concienciación sobre el Uso de los Antibióticos"
16/11/2017
Durante el 14 de Noviembre, en Santiago de Chile, en la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe se llevó a cabo un evento intitulado "Combatiendo Juntos la Resistencia a los Antimicrobianos", en el marco de [...]