Tag: Mutations

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), antimicrobial resistance was directly responsible for 1.27 million global deaths in 2019. To be clear, it's not your body that is becoming resistant, but the bacteria causing your infection that have evolved to resist the antibiotic's effects, which is the heart of the question, 'Why is my body resistant to some antibiotics?'.

According to the CDC, antimicrobial-resistant germs cause over 2 million infections and at least 23,000 deaths in the U.S. annually. Understanding **what causes resistance to medications?** is a critical challenge in modern medicine, encompassing complex biological mechanisms across different diseases.