Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance

Children in Africa and South East Asia are most at risk from antibiotics medicines no longer working, a study suggests.

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Children in Africa and South East Asia were found to be most at risk.

Antimicrobial resistance - known as AMR - develops when the microbes that cause infections evolve in such a way that antibiotic drugs no longer work.

It has been identified as one of the biggest public health threats facing the world's population.

A new study now reveals the toll that AMR is taking on children.

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