{"id":468747,"date":"2026-05-31T05:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468747\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:43:28","slug":"how-an-hku-developed-eczema-product-could-help-fight-superbug-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468747\/","title":{"rendered":"How an HKU-developed eczema product could help fight superbug threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the first antibiotic in 1928, he changed the course of history, extending global life expectancy by decades and saving millions of lives on the battlefield and beyond.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But humanity\u2019s dependence on his discovery has fuelled a modern crisis: antimicrobial resistance, or AMR.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Decades of overuse and misuse of the drug have allowed \u201csuperbugs\u201d \u2013 bacteria that have mutated to survive antibiotic treatments \u2013 to evolve.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to a 2014 UK study, AMR infections may kill 10 million people annually by 2050, surpassing cancer as a leading cause of death if no intervention is taken.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To address this problem, scientists at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed a skincare product for eczema that aims to control bacterial infections without killing them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Eczema is a condition affecting 800 million people, or 10 per cent of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Scottish doctor Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the first antibiotic in 1928, he changed the course of history,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[217970,11494,217973,22551,9234,217972,163,3448,85,46,217971,35750,22296,15020,11497,1651,4663,1916],"class_list":["post-468747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-alexander-fleming","tag-amr","tag-annesinin","tag-antibiotic","tag-eczema","tag-golden-staph","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kao","tag-pneumonia","tag-sepsis","tag-southeast-asia","tag-superbugs","tag-university-of-hong-kong","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}