A new report from the World Health Organization indicates that antibiotic resistance is a real and serious threat to people around the world

The report provides the most detail analysis of antibiotic resistance to date, and includes data from 114 countries.

The organization’s report is the first one to look specifically at antimicrobial resistance, along with antibiotic resistance, on a global scale. The report indicates that antibiotic resistance is a threat that is occurring today in places around the world, and that the problem should no longer be thought of as a prediction for the future. The WHO found that antibiotic resistance is capable of affecting people of all ages and in any country.

Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria are altered so that the antibiotics no longer work properly.

Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Health Security, said in a statement, “Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill.”

He continued, “Effective antibiotics have been one of the pillars allowing us to live longer, live healthier, and benefit from modern medicine. Unless we take significant actions to improve efforts to prevent infections and also change how we produce, prescribe and use antibiotics, the world will lose more and more of these global public health goods and the implications will be devastating.”

The report, titled “Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance,” focuses on resistance in seven different bacteria that are responsible for common yet serious diseases including sepsis, pneumonia, diarrhea, urinary tract infections and gonorrhea. The findings show resistance to antibiotics, particularly those used as a last resort, around the world.