世界卫生组织表示，耐药细菌感染（即抗菌素耐药性）每年在全球导致约一百万人死亡。一位世卫组织官员表示，这一死亡人数意味着该威胁不再能被称为“无声的大流行”，并指出已有经证实的干预措施可用于预防和控制这一问题。
The World Health Organization says drug-resistant bacterial infections, known as antimicrobial resistance, kill roughly one million people worldwide every year. A WHO official said the toll means the threat can no longer be called a silent pandemic, noting that proven interventions already exist to prevent and control it.
世界卫生组织表示，耐药细菌感染每年在全球导致约一百万人死亡。这些感染被归类为抗菌素耐药性，是指细菌进化出对曾经能可靠清除它们的治疗手段的存活能力，导致患者可用的有效治疗选择减少。
The World Health Organization says drug-resistant bacterial infections are killing roughly one million people worldwide each year. The infections, grouped under the term antimicrobial resistance, occur when bacteria evolve to survive treatments that once reliably cleared them, leaving fewer effective options for patients.
一位世卫组织官员表示，死亡人数的规模意味着抗菌素耐药性不应再被描述为“无声的大流行”，理由是该威胁已变得过于巨大和显而易见，不应再被视为隐性问题。该官员强调，已有经证实的干预措施可用于预防和控制耐药感染的传播。
A WHO official said the scale of the death toll means antimicrobial resistance should no longer be described as a silent pandemic, arguing that the threat has become too large and too visible to be treated as a hidden problem. The official stressed that proven interventions already exist to prevent and control the spread of resistant infections.
公共卫生专家长期以来一直警告，人类、动物和农业领域对抗生素的过度使用加速了耐药菌株的出现。世卫组织的声明增加了对各国政府和卫生系统的压力，要求其在未来几年加强监测、感染控制和抗生素的合理使用。
Public health specialists have long warned that overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals and agriculture accelerates the emergence of resistant strains. The WHO's statement adds to pressure on governments and health systems to strengthen surveillance, infection control and responsible antibiotic use in the coming years.