{"id":384768,"date":"2018-11-12T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/superbugs-pose-a-very-real-threat\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:06:51","slug":"superbugs-pose-a-very-real-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/superbugs-pose-a-very-real-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbugs Pose a Very Real Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Superbugs, those pesky bacteria that have evolved to become resistant to antibiotics, are on the rise and pose a very real threat to humanity.\u00a0Antimicrobial resistance is a large and growing problem, with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences for the United States and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0CNBC<\/em><\/a>, the media outlet which reported on\u00a0a new OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) report, released Wednesday,\u00a0superbug infections<\/a>\u00a0could cost the lives of about 2.4 million people in North America, Europe, and Australia over the next 30 years unless more is done to stem antibiotic resistance, which is already high across the globe.<\/p>\n

Resistance is also projected to grow even more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. In Brazil, Indonesia, and Russia, for example, between 40 percent and 60 percent of infections are already resistant, compared to an average of 17 percent in OECD countries. In these countries, the growth of antimicrobial resistance rates is forecast to be 4 to 7 times higher than in OECD countries between now and 2050.
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About\u00a029,500 persons die each year on average in the United States from infections related to eight drug-resistant bacteria<\/a>. By 2050, that number is expected to rise sharply.\u00a0 It is estimated that antimicrobial resistance will kill about 1 million people in the United States, in just over 30 years.<\/p>\n

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The economic toll of this superbug crisis is huge: In the United States alone the health-care costs dealing with antimicrobial resistance could reach $65 billion by 2050, according to the\u00a0OECD report<\/a>. That is more than the flu, HIV, and…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Superbugs, those pesky bacteria that have evolved to become resistant to antibiotics, are on the rise and pose a very real threat to humanity.\u00a0Antimicrobial resistance is a large and growing problem, with the potential for enormous health and economic consequences for the United States and the rest of the world. According to\u00a0CNBC, the media outlet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-384768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}