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A recent study of newborns by one of the world’s leading microbiology researchers, Prof. Ramanan Laxminarayan, estimates 58,000 babies die in India, each year, from superbugs

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2050, making them a bigger killer than In The Rise of India’s Superbugs, 101 East reporter, Yaara Bou Melhem, travels to

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“Antibiotics have saved millions of young lives here but now a new

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threat has emerged,” says Melhem. “These drugs are no longer proving effective and instead are creating lethal superbugs that no antibiotics can treat.”

A recent study of newborns by one of the world’s leading microbiology in India, each year, from superbugs.

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“India is absolutely in the front line for the problem of antibiotic resistance globally,” says Laxminarayan. “India has the highest number of newborns that die of drug resistance infections, which means an infection which could not be treated by the typical first line antibiotics.”

Laxminarayan says it’s not just India’s overcrowding, poverty and poor

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sanitation that are creating superbugs here. “The biggest contributors are the misuse and overuse of antibiotics,” he says. “The country’s use

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of them is spiraling out of control.”

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leading medical journal The Lancet later this year.

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antibiotics over the counter in India, without a prescription.

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afterwards. “Even though I was deliberately vague and didn’t really know what dosage I wanted or said that I only wanted a strip of the

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Seventy thousand babies are born every day in India, more than any other country in the world.

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With their weak immune systems, newborns are most at risk from

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Dr. Vinod Paul, a leading paediatrician from All India Institute of Medical Science, has just completed a study on antibiotic resistance in

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15,000 high-risk newborns in India, which will be published in the

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“We found that 60-80% of organisms that cause infections in newborns in our country are resistant to the kind of antibiotics that we normally

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use,” says Dr. Paul. “We are dealing with pathogens which are unusually tough and a fair proportion of them are now smarter than

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the antibiotics that we use on them.”

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seven years ago in a Swede who’d been travelling in India but has now spread to more than 70 countries. ease, threatening lives across the world,” says Melhem.

The Rise of India’s Superbugs premieres on Al Jazeera English at 2230 GMT on August 11, 2016 on 101 East, Al Jazeera’s award-winning weekly

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It repeats on August 12 at 0930 GMT, August 13 at 0330 GMT, August 14 at 1630 GMT, and August 15 at 0530 GMT. After it airs, the documentary will be available to embed on YouTube

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and watch on http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/.

For more information, follow 101 East on Twitter on @AJ101East and Facebook at 101East – Al Jazeera.

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