Carbapenemase in poultry production systems has now been documented in the United Arab Emirates for the first time. Screening 77 cecal samples from broiler farmhouses and slaughterhouses found three confirmed producers. One of them was a Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 strain carrying blaNDM-5, a gene whose mobile backbone matches a human clinical isolate from India at more than 98 percent nucleotide identity. Why carbapenemase in poultry matters for One Health Carbapenems are the antibiotics clinicians reach for when everything else has failed. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales sit on the World Health Organization critical-priority list, because they spread quickly and leave few treatment options behind. For years these organisms were treated as a hospital…