The Superbug Armageddon Has Been Cancelled — For Now – Forbes
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Before the holidays, the BBC reported on an analysis presented by UK antimicrobial resistance czar, economist Jim O’Neill, saying that drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide – more than currently die from cancer – by 2050 unless action is taken. These infections, commonly called “superbugs” are responsible for 50,000 deaths each year in Europe and the U.S. and that, if unchecked, would spiral to ten times that number by 2050. O’Neill said that scientists seemed more certain that drug resistance would be a bigger problem in the short term than climate change.
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