Drug-resistant superbugs projected to kill 39 million by 2050
Voice of America
FILE - An employee displays MRSA bacteria strain - a drug-resistant 'superbug' - inside a petri dish containing agar jelly for bacterial culture in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin, March 1, 2008.
Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, with the researchers urging action to avoid this grim scenario.
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