Sure would be great if the farmers would stop giving all their livestock antibiotics, causing a big part of this problem to begin with.
This seems like a hollow metric without some baseline data. Compared to what? And won’t there be like 3x the population by 2050?
Global population is trending to slow down.
And these rates would put AMR related deaths in the ballpark of TB. Although, TB is also one of the leading causes of AMR infection.
This is not the tyranid swarm I was promised!
If I can’t shoot these superbugs I’m taking myself out
There’s a UN conference about this soon. Here’s a discussion and criticism of current actions and non-actions, along with a comparison to the collateral damage aspect.
There’s a new antibiotic which can be made specifically for each gram-negative bacteria. Due to it being so selective, the impact of making other bactiera resistant is no longer an issue. Additionally, we’ve got to get back to studying bacteria phages in detail. These are viruses which only attack bacteria and they evolve faster than bacteria. But phages were written off after the discovery of penicillin. These numbers are scary, but thankfully there’s many intelligent folks working to prevent this from happening!
Bring on the Radscorpions and bloatflies!
