Just imagine one sailor in the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier sustains an injury, or gets a sore throat, gastroenteritis, or flu-like symptoms, and gets an AMR infection, the lives of 5000 sailors will be at risk. The sailor will need to be quarantined and treated with a very expensive drug (in short supply) for 14 days and will be bedridden. This is not scaremongering, but based on published statistics.

We're facing an unseen, terrifying threat that the World Health Organisation highlighted back in 2017, with a stark warning about 12 bacteria and fungi that are difficult to treat. If 84% of people in India in hospitals carried AMR in their nose and skin, then I am sure the number of people in Abraham Lincoln is also colonised.

Some people are even calling it a potential superbug holocaust, though ...