A former chief medical officer for England has warned the world for the coming years of a growing antibiotic emergency that could claim millions of lives and will have drastic impacts on people across the globe.
As per estimates, death rates from AMRs will be doubled by 2025 with figures directing to almost 40 million people losing their lives to superbugs over the next 25 years. The elderly will be at a higher risk, The Guardian reported.
According to Dame Sally Davies, routine procedures such as surgery and childbirth could pose real danger and carry widespread fatal risks because of the spread of bacteria that possesses antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
United Nations Environmental Program explains that, “AMR occurs when microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi, become resistant to antimicrobial treatments to which they were previously susceptible. The more microbes are exposed to pharmaceuticals, such as antibiotics, the more likely they are to adapt to them”.
“About a million people die every year because of the spread of microbial resistance, and that figure will rise over the next 25 years,” Davies told the Observer and added that “it is really scary”.
