Antibiotic-resistant superbugs ‘will kill 90,000 Britons by 2050’
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OECD says superbugs could kill 1.3 million people in Europe unless more is done to tackle issue.
More than 90,000 people in Britain will die over the next three decades unless action is taken to halt the rise in antibiotic-resistant superbug infections, a report has warned.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates resistant infections could kill about 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia by 2050 unless more is done to tackle the problem, which it describes as ‘one of the biggest threats to modern medicine’.
This includes about 1.3 million deaths in Europe and 90,000 in Britain.
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