Study Finds Air Pollution May Be Fueling a Rise in Drug-Resistant Infections

Antibiotic resistance spread as a result of air pollution caused 480,000 premature deaths in 2018, the authors estimate.

Air pollution could be helping drive a rise in drug-resistant infections, which pose a dangerous threat to global public health, according to a new study. The paper, published Monday in Lancet Planetary Health, concludes that particulate air pollution (PM2.5), which comes from burning fossil fuels for energy, industrial processes, and transportation, may be one of the largest contributors to the…

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