Superbugs could kill 10 million people by 2050
A recent report on Antimicrobial Resistance commissioned by Britain’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies was conducted by Professor Jim O’Neill, a global authority on bacterial infection. The report concluded that superbugs would be responsible for 10 million lives lost by 2050.
“Key medical procedures such as gut surgery, caesarian sections, joint replacements and treatments that depress the immune system such as chemotherapy for cancer, could become too dangerous to perform.” he said.
In the United Kingdom last year, about 5000 people died from illness that could previously have been treated by penicillin and its myriad derivatives.
British scientists claim to have just developed a new synthetic antibotic in the hope that it will provide a treatment for resistant superbugs and a range of other infections.
While this new antibotic may provide a significant weapon in fighting superbugs going forward, it's not a game-changer.
And we continue to feed all these darn Antibiotics to Cattle/Sheep/and Fowl etc, so no one is free from the dangers of them and the trouble they cause.