UN Seeking Urgent Action On Superbugs

RMIT

The UN General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting on 26 September to discuss the potentially catastrophic impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Meanwhile, a new study in the Lancet has predicted that almost 40 million people will die directly because of drug-resistant infections by 2050, while drug-resistant bugs will also be indirectly implicated in the deaths of a further 169 million people.

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