Superbugs Kill- Findings in a U.K. study revealed that antimicrobial resistant has the capacity to claim lives of 10 million people each year and could costs a tremendous loss to world economy. Superbugs kill half a million people each year and if action will not be taken, more serious implications could take place.
The study on superbugs kill headed by British economist Jim O'Neill as appointed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, had published the first paper on the study on Dec. 11. The research is entitled "Review on Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a Crisis for the Health and Wealth of Nations."
Daily Mail reported that antimicrobials refer to various kinds of drugs that include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics. One of the drug-resistant bacteria is the E.Coli that is becoming defiant to carbapenem antibiotics and people who are infected with this strain could not be cured.
Superbugs kill is becoming an alarming issue and could slam the world's economy if action would not be initiated. The review is geared on solving the growing resistance on antimicrobial drugs by discovering new therapies that could end the mounting medical threat.
CTV News cited that the findings on superbugs kill study arrived on conclusions that the growing antimicrobial resistance of the strains could go beyond the current record of cancer death of 8.2 million. It is also a more severe problem than the climate change, where more people would die if it will not be solved.
"To put that in context, the annual GDP [gross domestic product] of the UK is about $3tn, so this would be the equivalent of around 35 years without the UK contribution to the global economy," head of the superbugs kill study Jim O'Neill told BBC News.
Researchers RAND and KPMG revealed that the growing drug resistance could cause extra deaths of 10 million each year by 2050, and it could hit not only U.K. and U.S. but also all other countries.
President Emeritus at Harvard University and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Lawrence H. Summers, commented on superbugs kill study saying:
"This sobering analysis from Jim O'Neill's Review demonstrates why the world needs to get serious about tackling the rise in antibiotics resistance. We play with fire if we skimp on public health. Ignoring the tide of drug resistant infections risks rolling back the hard won medical advances of the last century at precisely the first moment in history when we can actually go the other way and close the global health gap."
The growing threat on public health was also brought in Twitter, where superbugs kill people around the globe.
In India, babies were born with bacterial infections and are all not curable as they appear to be resistant already to antibiotics. There were over 58,000 newborns who had died last year based on the current study.
#MDR infections are real, and they are coming for us #America https://t.co/sovve0QLwK
— Sharon (@sharona911) December 5, 2014
Sky News - Superbugs 'Could Send UK Back To The Dark Ages' Yeh & where are they coming from immigrants https://t.co/bcraPLt8yh — SCOT DEFENCE LEAGUE (@gwalker1312) July 2, 2014
The super bugs are coming for us and PMSH is hoping you won't see them coming https://t.co/gyP7zFcU5E #wakeupCanada
— Christy Pettit (@odguru) November 18, 2013
Today, more and more people die as superbugs kill people by attacking the immune system and delivering non-curable diseases. O’Neill added, if this threat will not be solved at once could bring us back to old ages.
Pipeline of new drugs to arrest the issue of superbugs kill are still under study. Resolutions for the mounting public health issue will be brought by 2016, the head of the study stated.
