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Aquaculture is quietly accelerating antimicrobial resistance:
• Antibiotics used in fish & shrimp farming enter water systems
• Resistant bacteria & genes persist in sediments
• They move through food chains → into humans
What happens in water doesn’t stay in water.
Read more: buff.ly/LlORp8i
Learn more about Peggy and the Peggy Lillis Foundation, founded by her sons Christian and Liam to raise awareness about C. difficile and advocate for safer antibiotic use.
Link: cdiff.org
Peggy was hospitalized just one week after being prescribed antibiotics.
She developed a C. difficile infection linked to antibiotic use, progressed to sepsis, and sadly passed away.
Her story is a painful reminder that antibiotic misuse can have devastating consequences.
During that time, she listened to music often, fearing that each song might be the last she would ever hear.
#AMR does not only affect patients.
Sometimes, it affects the very people trying to save lives.
The treatment began to damage her hearing, threatening not just her health but also her medical career.
Dr. Dalene faced an impossible choice:
Continue treatment and risk permanent deafness, or stop treatment and risk her life.
The regimen required toxic second-line antibiotics, drugs known to cause severe side effects.
Every day she swallowed 30 pills:
The medications that were meant to save her life also made her extremely ill.
One of the side effects was devastating.
Dalene von Delft was a newly qualified doctor in South Africa with dreams of becoming a pediatric surgeon.
Then she was diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Her treatment lasted 19 difficult months.
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The cause?
A multidrug-resistant infection linked to pet store puppies.
Mike was one of 113 people in 17 states affected by the outbreak.
His infection resisted nearly every antibiotic, only one drug worked.
Read full story and what it means for #AMR in our Discord.
Link: discord.gg/se3dYfpxPe
PUPPIES MAKE PEOPLE SICK, yes! you read that right.
Mike, a 67-year-old retired professor, brought home a puppy named Mabel. Within a week, he was in the hospital.
What started as diarrhea and fatigue quickly escalated into kidney failure, ICU admissions, and emergency surgery.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is not a distant or abstract threat.
It is already undermining care on the frontlines of fragility and crisis.
Vanessa’s story is a powerful reminder that the impact of #AMR is not far away.
📽️ Watch the full video: youtu.be/GUw6fRhwt3Y
From hospitals to households, smarter use = stronger medicine. 💊
🔗 Read more: [https://buff.ly/m1h1nSB]
#AMR #MicroDAO #LetstalkAMR
Antibiotic use is rising fastest where access is easiest.
📈 Iran, South Africa, and Egypt lead global consumption; over 50 daily doses per 1,000 people, But misuse and over-prescription fuel antimicrobial resistance, a silent global crisis.👇
New antibiotics, including antifungals, may help improve patient treatment options and outcomes, especially against resistant infections, but the fight against antibiotic resistance cannot rely on drug development alone.
2/2 Approximately 30% of CRE carry mobile genetic elements
→ enzymes that destroy carbapenems
→ resistance that spreads fast between bacteria
Prevention & containment = protecting our last-line drugs.
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1/2 CARBAPENEM-RESISTANT ACINETOBACTER {CRE} is one of the most dangerous #AMR threats in healthcare.
Patients with devices (e.g. catheters) or long antibiotic exposure are at highest risk.
To slow AMR we must:
• Stop the blame game → everyone has a role
• Stop relying only on new drugs
• Start preventing infections first
• Improve antibiotic use in humans & animals
• Detect threats early
No country is untouched.
Action starts with us.
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"The post-antibiotic era isn’t coming.
We’re already living in it."
Robert R. Redfield, M.D. Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1/2
2/2 Untreated infections can lead to infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and even blood, heart & neurological complications.
This is #AMR in real life.
Join the conversation on our #MicroDAO Telegram: buff.ly/l15XbEB
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1/2 Drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae is classified as an urgent threat.
Gonorrhea has developed resistance to almost all antibiotic classes.
Half of infections resist at least one drug.
Most people don’t show symptoms → silent spread.
Evidence → Insight → Funding → New Evidence
Each cycle strengthens the next.
Contributors share tools & data, earn rewards.
Researchers access evidence, generate insights & unlock funding.
A model designed to outgrow short-term funding cycles and keep innovation moving.
MicroDAO's solution to the #AMR crisis is building a self-sustaining research engine for AMR.
🧠 Curated evidence to surface gaps & priorities
🤖 AI research agents to connect data, guide discovery
🧪 Tokenized experiments to fund validation of new vaccines, diagnostics & antimicrobials
Infection prevention matters and it helps slow antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Here’s how to protect yourself and others 👇
Link: buff.ly/HO3OrEz
Hello #Desci Community, We noticed our previous Discord Link got Expired, Here's a new one discord.gg/se3dYfpxPe
Join the conversation and keep amplifying the message of #AMR
Any antibiotic use can drive resistance.
When antibiotics kill germs, the few that survive can pass “resistance genes” to others even across species.
That’s how superbugs spread.
We broke down how this gene sharing works in simple terms on Telegram
👉 Link: t.me/+j0OqmcVhifZ...
MicroDAO Discord has Launched!!!
We just launched our Discord to support more active discussion across science, industry, and public health, and to create space for contributors who prefer a more interactive environment.
Link: buff.ly/JH9jrGw
WHATS ON OUR LATEST SUBSTACK🧾
In 2026, MicroDAO is focused on building what lasts:
• Opening the Pathogen Catalogue (closed beta)
• Advancing AIRA, our collaborative research platform
• Launching our Discord Community
From foundations → real-world use.
Link: buff.ly/YorgaHD
Antiviral resistance exposes the same structural gap as AMR
Pathogen-level data, resistance patterns, treatment options, and blind spots need to be visible, connected, and usable.
That’s the difference between scrambling during the next outbreak and being ready 2/2
🔗 :
www.cdc.gov/flu/treatmen...
What do we know for sure about antiviral resistance?
1️⃣ It already exists
2️⃣ It emerges fastest in immunocompromised patients
3️⃣ Viruses evolve differently from bacteria
4️⃣ Surveillance is weaker than for antibiotics
5️⃣ Prevention matters more than ever 1/2
