On October 9, 2017 By newsroom Topic: Healthcare
The Guardian writes about a report by doctors saying that about 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections, and that this global figure is growing relentlessly and could reach 10 million a year by 2050.
Antibiotic resistance, like climate change, is a slow, relentless threat. It not only affects the treatment of infections, drug resistance also makes any surgical operation a high risk affair in absence of antibiotics working properly.