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GHealth News - The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean has launched a new strategy (2025–2028) to reduce cholera in the region by addressing its root causes and preventing future outbreaks. The plan comes amid a significant rise in cholera and acute watery diarrhea cases, with the region currently accounting for 55% of global cholera cases and deaths in 2025. Key challenges include protracted conflict, poverty, poor health systems, weak water and sanitation infrastructure, displacement, and climate shocks. Countries like Sudan (65,291 cases, 1,721 deaths), Yemen (271,000 suspected cases, 884 deaths), and Syria face especially severe outbreaks. The strategy aligns with global frameworks and focuses on five key pillars: Multisectoral coordinati...

Nobel Prize - As bacteria become resistant to existing antibiotics, we are running out of drugs to treat infectious diseases. This is a problem that Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, foresaw already in 1945. Today the hunt is on to find new antibiotics with the potential to save millions of lives.  At a glance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis, with predictions that 10 million people per year could die from drug-resistant infections by 2050. Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin revolutionised medicine. Fleming warned in 1945 that improper use of antibiotics could lead to antibiotic resistance. Scientists are searching for new antibiotics in various environments, such as deserts, oceans, and even within the human body, to combat AMR. ...