Drug-resistant bugs kill millions

This is a news story, published by Guardian, that relates primarily to Alan Dangour news.

Alan Dangour news

For more Alan Dangour news, you can click here:

more Alan Dangour news

disease research news

For more disease research news, you can click here:

more disease research news

Guardian news

For more news from Guardian, you can click here:

more news from Guardian

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best health news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like disease research news, you might also like this article about

Most antibiotics

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest resistant infections news, recent antibiotic news, disease research news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

antimicrobial resistance

Guardian

•

‘It is a pandemic’: UK’s envoy on superbugs says scale of threat underestimated

Summary

Nutrition label

79% Informative

Superbugs kill more than a million people each year but neither governments nor the public recognise the scale of the threat.

The crisis is largely driven by the misuse of antibiotics about 70% of which are given to livestock which encourages the evolution of microbes too strong for modern medicine to handle.

By 2050 it is projected that drug-resistant bugs will kill nearly 2 million people and play role in the deaths of 8 million people.

Alan Dangour , who leads the climate and health team at Wellcome , said scientists discovering new treatments were in a race against the bugs.

If we don’t find another set of antibiotics or responses to bacterial infections, more and more people will be catching infections that are no longer responsive to the medicines we have,’ he said.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful