Antibiotics save lives, but misusing them could lead to millions of deaths.

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According to a new UN report, drug resistance could result in 10 million yearly deaths by 2050.

Bacteria are beating our medicines faster than we can create them.
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▼ Overuse and misuse of antimicrobial medicine could cause devastating infectious disease outbreaks in the coming decades, according to a concerning new reportfrom an infectious disease unit within the United Nations. The group—the United Nations Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance—calls for “immediate, coordinated, and ambitious action” to avoid this crisis.
While non-communicable conditions like heart disease and stroke are the greatestkillers of humans worldwide, infectious diseases like tuberculosis, MRSA, and malaria are becoming more resistant to the medications used to treat them. The target of mostly effective treatment campaigns over the past century, these ailments have largely been on the decline—but that could change.
Not only can these bacteria, fungi, parasites, and other microorganisms affect otherwise healthy humans, but they’re also a concern for those undergoing medical procedureslike organ transplants, chemotherapy, and major surgeries. The report emphasizes that this issue will affect both low- and high-income countries: Infectious diseases are becoming harder to treat, and hospitals are becoming riskier places to pick them up from.
According to the report, around 700,000 people die from drug-resistant diseases each year—that number could skyrocket to 10 million if countries don’t take action.
Those measures include taking a holistic approach to disease management, the report says, tying together environmental, human, and animal health. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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