Nearly 40 million people could die from antibiotic-resistant superbug infections by 2050, new study estimates
- A global analysis predicts that infections from drug-resistant superbugs could kill nearly 40 million people in the next 25 years, urging action to prevent this outcome.
- The study in The Lancet reports that over one million people died yearly from superbugs from 1990 to 2021.
- Researchers estimate that direct deaths from antimicrobial resistance will rise by 67% to nearly two million annually by 2050, contributing to 169 million total deaths.
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