
Superbugs due to antibiotic resistance could kill 39 million people by 2050, large study finds
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Resistance to antibiotics has led to one million worldwide deaths each year since 1990, and is expected to cause more than 39 million more fatalities by 2050, a new study has found.
"We may find ourselves back to where we were in the pre-antibiotic era." "Antibiotics are a shared natural resource that we must all protect." Melissa Rudy is senior health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to melissa.rudy@fox.com.
That’s according to a large study led by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project, a partnership between the University of Oxford and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
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