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Five Priorities for Combating Antibiotic Resistance

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According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, with more than 35,000 people dying as a result. The agency's "Antibiotic Threats in the United States, 2019" covers the top 18 resistant diseases and assesses progress in the fight against superbugs, which is an update of its first review of antibiotic resistance in the United States in 2013. The following are five top priorities in the fight against antibiotic resistance: Reduce antibiotic use in human medicine:   Outpatient health care settings, such as doctors' offices, emergency departments, retail health clinics, and emergency rooms, require improved antibiotic prescribing. The Joint Commission, a non-profit accrediting agency, just completed its stewardship requirement for outpatient institutions, which represents a significant step forward. Although hopeful, this rule only applies to a tiny per...

What are the Symptoms of Omicron- A Covid 19 Variant

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Research is presently being conducted all over the world in order to find this COVID variant  in fact, many research are being conducted in order to understand this variant of issue. The World Health Organization's TAG-VE, or Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution, named the COVID variant "Omicron" on November 26, 2021 (Friday). B.1.1.529 is the name of the new COVID variant.  Symptoms of Omicron: Most common symptoms:   Most common symptoms for the new COVID Variant “Omicron” include fever, cough, tiredness, loss of taste or smell. Less common symptoms:  Less common symptoms for the new COVID Variant “Omicron” include conditions like sore throat, headache, aches, pains, diarrhoea, a rash on skin, and discoloration of fingers or toes Serious symptoms:   Serious symptoms for the new COVID Variant “Omicron” include difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, and loss of speech or mobility, or confusion or chest pain.