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# HEALTH: The Silent Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance Antibiotic resistance kills approximately 1.27 million people annually and is projected to cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050—exceeding cancer mortality—if current trajectories continue. The crisis accelerated dramatically post-WWII when penicillin became mass-produced; bacteria began developing resistance within years, yet antibiotic development slowed from 50+ new drugs in the 1980s to only 2-3 per decade today. Agriculture accounts for 70-80% of antibiotic use in developed nations, primarily for growth promotion in livestock, creating evolutionary pressure on resistant pathogens that spread to humans through food chains and environmental contamination. This matters because standard surgeries, chemotherapy, and childbirth rely on functional antibiotics—their failure returns medicine to pre-1940s conditions where minor infections became life-threatening, disproportionately impacting lower-income nations already burdened with limited diagnostic capacity and counterfeit medications.
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The post Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders appeared first on ProPublica . Source: ProPublica
A proof-of-concept exploit (PoC) shows how someone with admin privileges can exploit the issue to steal passwords, and thus use them to engage in further malicious activity. Source: darkreading
Police in Austria report that three people have died after gunfire was heard in the city. Local media reported a large police presence in the north of the city. Police also said there was no ongoing threat to the public. Source: World | Deutsche Welle
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