Drug-Resistant Superbugs Can Kill 10M Per Year The Free Press Journal
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A new study has revealed that unchecked drug-resistant superbugs can kill 10 million a year and cost the global economy up to 100 trillion dollars by 2050, reports ANI.

According to the economist Jim O’Neill, who chaired the report, antimicrobial resistance is a more certain threat than climate change in the short term, the Guardian reported.

O’Neill, added that they cannot allow AMR to materialise for any of them, especially their fellow citizens in the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and Mint (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey) world  and so their ambition is such that they will search for bold, clear and practical long term solutions.

The report acknowledges that the human impact should be enough to prompt major intervention but says the economic figures illustrate that the issue “transcends health policy.”

Three bacteria, K pneumoniae, E coli and Staphylococcus aureus, out of a group of seven highlighted by the World Health Organisation, are already showing concerning resistance levels, as well as, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are broader public health issues for which resistance is a concern.

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