Resistant bacteria. Janice Haney Carr/AP
The fight against antibiotic resistance
Resistant bacteria may soon become a global crisis: "Too scary to think about"
Experts warn that 2024 will be the last chance to stop a global catastrophe in the form of what is usually called the "silent pandemic", widespread antibiotic resistance. TT writes that resistant bacteria reap a human life every six seconds worldwide. In Sweden, it is about 500 deaths each year.
- We are approaching a global crisis. No one can say exactly when it will come, or how it will manifest itself, says Otto Cars, professor and founder of React, an international network against antibiotic resistance.
If antibiotic resistance spreads more, routine surgeries may become too dangerous to perform, a small cut on the finger may end in death, and premature babies may not be able to be saved.
But even though antibiotic resistance has been on the agenda for many years, the problem has not been overcome, says Cars. - I don't think people understood the seriousness, neither politicians nor people in general. And so it is perhaps too scary to think about.
Ships in Oresund. Archive image. Coast Guard / TT
Researchers: Ships can cheat with emissions - dangerous to health
Half of all ships that operate in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea emit too much nitrogen oxide, according to a research project that Sjöfartstidningen reports on.
- It could be cheating, that you ignore injecting so-called urea (a substance that cleans the exhaust gases) because you think it costs too much, says Professor Johan Mellqvist at Chalmers to SVT Nyheter.
According to Mellqvist, "a number of people" will die a premature death or suffer from asthma as a result of the nitrogen oxide emissions.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Manish Swarup / AP
India's government wants to see no to same-sex marriage
India's government is urging the country's Supreme Court to continue saying no to the recognition of same-sex marriages, Reuters reports.
The issue has come to the fore since at least four couples in recent months submitted applications to the court to legalize same-sex marriage.
In its statement to the court, the Ministry of Justice writes that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that the state has an interest in maintaining it.
Same-sex relationships were decriminalized in the country in 2018.
The court will raise the issue on March 13. Archive image.
Woman in Varanasi. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP
They are fighting for the right of homosexuals to marry in India
Aditi Anand and her partner Susan Dias grew up in an India where homosexuality was illegal, and had already been together for many years when same-sex relationships were decriminalized in 2018.
Now they are one of four couples in the country who in recent months have demanded that the Supreme Court raise the issue of same-sex marriage, which they are expected to do next week. This is reported by the American radio channel NPR.
For Anand and Dias, it's about having the same rights as other couples, not least when it comes to their child. Today, only one of them is legally considered a parent.
- There is no reason why our child should not have two parents, says Anand.
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