{"id":215509,"date":"2022-11-23T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215509"},"modified":"2022-11-23T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:52:08","slug":"5-bacteria-types-claimed-6-8-lakh-lives-in-india-in-2019-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/5-bacteria-types-claimed-6-8-lakh-lives-in-india-in-2019-report\/","title":{"rendered":"5 bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c5 bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Report\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> TOI <\/b>on<b> 22nd November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Lancet report, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bacterial Infections were the second leading cause of death worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key findings of the report by Lancet?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215521\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-215521 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/95671084.jpg?resize=408%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bacteria\" width=\"408\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/95671084.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/95671084.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TOI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>India:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India, five bacteria were responsible for at least 6.8 lakh deaths in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The five deadly bacteria in India are led by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Escherichia coli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Streptococcus pneumoniae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staphylococcus aureus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acinetobacter baumanii.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 E Coli, which is associated with diarrhoea, urinary tract infection and pneumonia among others, claimed a maximum of 1.6 lakh lives in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Globally:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> An estimated 1.3 crore people died due to infections globally. Of these deaths, 77 lakh deaths were associated with the 33 bacterial pathogens included in the study with five bacteria alone connected to more than half of all deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Age-wise: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pathogens associated with the most deaths differed by age. S. aureus was associated with the most deaths in adults aged over 15 years globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The most deaths in children aged 5 to 14 years were associated with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201c5 bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Report\u201d published in TOI on 22nd November 2022. What is the News? According to a Lancet report, Bacterial Infections were the second leading cause of death worldwide. What are the key findings of the report by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/5-bacteria-types-claimed-6-8-lakh-lives-in-india-in-2019-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 bacteria types claimed 6.8 lakh lives in India in 2019: Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-215509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913155},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}