🎃 This #Halloween, the real monsters are in our hospitals.
10M deaths by 2050. Common infections untreatable

We have the solutions. What we need is ACTION

My #WAAW2025 article 👉 fadic.net/antimicrobial-stewardship-in-2025-why-healthcare-professionals-must-act-now-to-stop-superbugs-this-halloween

🦠 Shorter antibiotics (≤5 days) for respiratory infections match longer in effectiveness, to combat AMR, per our UK study of 640 patients @MDPIOpenAcces.

📢 Read: communities.springernature.com/posts/shorte...

🔗 Study: www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/17...

#AMR #AntimicrobialStewardship #ShorterIsBetter

Delighted to share our latest technical report on strengthening antimicrobial stewardship post-COVID-19.

Policy in Practice: Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship Post-COVID-19

🔗 Read here: www.southcentre.int/sc-technical...

#AMR #AntimicrobialStewardship #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy #LMICs

Looking forward to World AMR Awareness Week (#WAAW) 2025!

The 2025 newly theme “Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future”🌍

A powerful reminder of the urgent action needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and strengthen stewardship. 💊🌐

#WAAW2025 #AMR #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #WHO

Last week in #epidemiology - our latest weekly bulletin - the #ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) focuses on:

➡️ respiratory virus epidemiology
➡️ #SARSCoV2
➡️ #chikungunya
➡️ #diphtheria
➡️ #mpox
➡️ #influenza A(#H5N1)
➡️ #cholera
➡️ #YellowFever
➡️ #Ebola

Click: bit.ly/4m1YNqa
#IdSky #EpiSky

Thanks to @josemolinagb.bsky.social from Seville, Spain, for finding a great Shorter Is Better study from 2021 for bronchiectasis exacerbations! Updated tables attached, with link to website with citations. Had to shrink the font to fit so many RCTs in table!
www.bradspellberg.com/shorter-is-b...