Danger Dust - What Else?

During times of human conflict, infections thrive among the wounded and overcrowded, and the surrounding environment is likely to become contaminated with heavy metals and unsafe water, which further propagates the spread of disease. Meanwhile, hospitals struggle to save lives with restricted resources (e.g., shortages of medical staff, medications and supplies), and people have difficulty accessing, or simply cannot access, health care if/when it is available.

In short, conflict fuels the uncontrolled spread of infections in environments where proper health care is hard to come by, which leads to misuse of antibiotics without proper diagnosis and treatment. This, in turn, allows pathogens to rapidly develop antimicrobial resistance (AMR).