Drug-resistant infections already claim 700,000 lives a year, including 230,000 deaths from drug-resistant tuberculosis, the report said. During the next 30 years, UN experts said, 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia could die from drug-resistant infections, making routine hospital procedures like knee-replacement surgery and child birth far riskier than they are today. Health officials are struggling to understand the scope of the problem because many countries are ill-equipped to monitor drug-resistant infections. By contrast, 19 new antimicrobial drugs were approved between 1980 and 1984. The dearth of new drugs is tied to the perverse economics of antimicrobial resistance and the free market.

Source: bd News24 May 01, 2019 08:03 UTC