According to a journal article, an international team of biologists has found evidence that the emergence of antibiotic-resistant “super microbes” in the Middle East has increased significantly since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the subsequent war there. BMJ Global Health.
According to scientists, “super microbes” emerged due to the deterioration of health infrastructure, misuse of treatments in the field, high contamination of nature and patients’ bodies with heavy metal ions and unsanitary conditions.
Such bacteria spread first to Iraq, then to the Middle East and eventually to the whole world.
Over the past two decades, microbiologists have identified dozens of strains of microbes that are resistant to the action of one or more antibiotics.
These “super microbes” arose as a result of the massive misuse of antibiotics in medicine and livestock, the scientists say. Another factor is that these drugs enter natural ecosystems together with urban and industrial wastes.