‘Antibiotic apocalypse’: 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections

On February 16, 2025  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.


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