Scientists at Hebrew University's Koret School of Veterinary Medicine warn that drug-resistant bacteria threaten a greater risk of blindness in animals within a decade and can jump to humans. The study, published Friday, calls for smarter antibiotic use to curb the spread.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Koret School of Veterinary Medicine have published a study warning that drug-resistant bacteria, or 'superbugs,' pose a growing threat to vision in animals and could jump to humans, increasing the risk of blindness within a decade. The study, reported by The Times of Israel on Friday morning, calls for smarter antibiotic use to slow the emergence of resistant strains. This comes amid a broader public and scientific debate in Israel about antibiotic resistance, which has previously surfaced in hospital settings — such as the recent detection of drug-resistant bacteria carriers among eight premature infants at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa (as The Zioneer reported on June 12). Unlike that incident, where infants were asymptomatic carriers, the new veterinary study warns of active disease transmission from animals to humans through ocular infections. No specific cases or locations in Israel were named in the report.
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