Drug-resistant infections to kill 11 million by 2050: study 항생제 내성 사망자 2050년 천
A new study says that infections resistant to antibiotics will kill more than 10 million people each year by the year 2050 more than the number who will die from cancer The report, made for the UK government by economist Jim O′Neill said that the global death toll will continue to rise if action is not taken Currently, about 7-hundred-thousand deaths occur from infections resistant to medicine The study was commissioned earlier this year, amid growing concerns of drug-resistant "superbugs" like new strains of E coli, malaria and tuberculosis Most deaths from these superbugs are said to be in Asia