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ARIMA11on Jan 27, 2022 11:51am
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Interestinghttps://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-27/after-covid-antimicrobial-resistance-is-the-world-s-biggest-health-emergency?
Covid-19 has claimed nearly 6 million lives. Antimicrobial resistance may claim 10 million annually by 2050 — and that figure is starting to look low.
A new study published last week in the Lancet presents the first global estimates of the burden of antimicrobial resistance — and they confirm the worst fears. The authors estimate that in 2019, nearly 1.3 million deaths were directly attributed to infections that were drug-resistant and more than 4.9 million deaths were associated with drug resistance. One in five AMR deaths occurred in a child under the age of five.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext