Experts from the Interagency Coordination Group (IACG) urge nations across the world to come together for immediate coordinated action to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a phenomenon with disaster written all over it. This could rise to 10 million a year by 2050, without sustained efforts towards containment, 2.4 million of them in high-income countries alone, counting from 2015. And the damage to the economy could be as catastrophic as the 2008 global meltdown: by 2030, AMR could force up to 24 million into extreme poverty. The occurrence has been marked as a 'global threat to public health' by the World Health Organization. Rise of resistance

Source: dna April 29, 2019 23:37 UTC