If you search on toilet, there's a lot more articles that come up, but at first glance, most don't appear to be about solving open defecation, though there is one on the front page of the search about the Gates foundation funding toilet research.
In contrast, you can put in antibiotic resistant and limit it to the past year and get pages of hits. Granted, they won't all be about the latest sexy research methods.
There's one more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20730146 from six months ago is titled "California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’" and deals with "excrement on the sidewalks of San Francisco".
It has 159 comments, probably because of how it affects "first world wealthy people".
It has 159 comments, probably because of how it affects "first world wealthy people".