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When medicine fails: How antibiotic resistance nearly took Dr Kariuki's life

Dr John Kariuki, Veterinarian, antimicrobial resistance survivor. [Courtesy]

On October 6, 2020, veterinarian Dr John Kariuki fell in his bathroom. It took one year of excruciating pain, surgeries and a myriad of drugs before healing.

What almost ended him was not the fall but an unseen enemy known as the silent pandemic that refused to bow even to medicine: antimicrobial resistance.

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