Antibiotic resistance is one of the “biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today' according to the World Health Organization.
Climate change could worsen the spread of microbes which are immune to drugs and substances we use to kill them, such as antibiotics, scientists have warned.
The team were partly inspired to explore this association off the back of a 2018 study published in the journal Nature, which showed the combination of rising local temperatures and population density in the U.S. was linked to an increase in antibiotic resistance. The study revealed statistically significant links between Klebsiella pneumoniae, multiresistant E.coli and MRSA during the warm season. CRPA was meanwhile associated with changes in temperature during the warm season.
This potential association is arguably worrying considering the United Nations last year warned of a 2030 deadline to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid global warming rising to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Such a climb is predicted to bring with it extreme weather events such as flooding and heatwaves, which could in turn affect access to food and—as the authors of the antimicrobial resistance study point out—public health.
Professor Simone Scheithauer, senior Author and Institute Director, Institute of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Göttingen, explained to Newsweek: “Generally, what we describe in our work is models. These are based on recent developments in climate and AMR and under consideration of potential socio-economic and health system related confounder variables.
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