Chittagong: It is now a familiar sight that black water from drains and sewers overflowed on various roads, alleys and residential areas of the city due to continuous rains. In some places, children are playing in the water, in others, people are forced to walk barefoot.

Elsewhere, this contaminated water is flowing into farmland, fish ponds, ponds, and vegetable fields. While it may look like ordinary waterlogging from the outside, experts say that this waste-laden water is hiding deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a silent but growing threat to public health.
According to experts, these germs can enter the human body through contact with contaminated water, skin wounds, contaminated food or water. As a result, diseases such as diarrhea, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, wound infections and blood infections are becoming increasingly difficult to treat.

Because many of these bacteria have acquired resistance to conventional antibiotics.
Studies have shown that sewage and wastewater contain a variety of pathogens, including Escherichia coli (E. coli), Klebsiella pneumoniae, Salmonella, Shigella, and Staphylococcus aureus.

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