Super Bug Could Kill Us All
- In July 2014, the UK government commissioned the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance to address the ever-growing concern that super bugs, resistant to current antibiotics, could eventually evolve to the point that our drugs simply don't work.
- Super bugs, if left unchecked, could kill up to 10 million people per year by 2050, equivalent to one person every three seconds.
- Over-prescription is a major contributing factor to the issue, and the report recommends that the world reduces the use of antibiotics, and tighten restrictions on when they should be prescribed.
- With international cooperation critical to any approach, the report calls on the World Health Assembly, G7, G20, and the UN to deliver the policy proposals recommended in the report and turn them into action.
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