LONDON (Reuters) - Sushi lovers may be at risk of becoming infected with antibiotic resistance because of the rapid spread of superbugs in the sea, British doctors have warned.
According to the British Daily Mail, health officials have confirmed that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the biggest threat to modern medicine, where bacteria learn to adapt and become resistant to drugs when people take incorrect doses of antibiotics, or if they are unnecessarily given The problem lies in the fact that new antibiotics have not been developed for decades, and nearly 700,000 people die each year from drug-resistant infections including tuberculosis, HIV and malaria worldwide.
The researchers stressed that sushi lovers are most at risk because untreated bacteria live in raw meat.