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Showing Original Post only (View all)Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds' [View all]
Source: BBC
Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says.
The global review sets out a plan for preventing medicine "being cast back into the dark ages" that requires billions of dollars of investment.
It also calls for a revolution in the way antibiotics are used and a massive campaign to educate people.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36321394
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That is true, and a problem, but in this country the big problem is antibiotics given to livestock,
still_one
May 2016
#5
It is a problem, and a lot of work with new classes of antibiotics, bacterial phages, and vaccines
still_one
May 2016
#6
On the radio they were talking about about trying to disconnect profits from sales.
Bad Dog
May 2016
#14
Yes, and at least rich people get richer from tobacco, which is the most important thing
valerief
May 2016
#31
So how do hedge fund managers get rich from it? If that isn't possible, then we all die, cuz
valerief
May 2016
#29